Paula Doress-Worters, a founding member of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, died at 87. Her work on postpartum depression in the seminal book 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' transformed how society viewed the condition. The collective published the first edition in 1970, sparking global conversations about women's health.

Doress-Worters' personal battle with postpartum depression, documented in the book, helped legitimize the condition and influenced medical discourse. Her chapter, initially just 10 pages, expanded into a policy-level advocacy tool addressing issues like child care and parental leave. The book became a cultural touchstone, passed among women like samizdat, and faced censorship attempts from groups like the Moral Majority.