| Description |
x, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Gender, medicine, and health / Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell -- The language of science and medicine -- The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- Unnatural births : cesarean sections in the discourse of the "natural childbirth" movement / Helena Michie and Naomi R. Cahn -- Gender, health, and the life cycle -- The cultural constructions of the premenstrual and menopause syndromes / Dona Davis -- Gender, aging, and health : a comparative approach / Maria G. Cattell --Technology, gender, and health -- The technocratic body and the organic body : hegemony and heresy in women's birth choices / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Women and the debate over mammography : an economic, political, and moral history / Patricia A. Kaufert -- Gender, medical ethics, and personhood -- Cancer and women : some feminist ethics concerns / Susan Sherwin -- Boundary crossings : gender and power in clinical ethics consultations / Patricia A. Marshall -- A handmaid's tale : the rhetoric of personhood in American and Japanese healing of abortions / Thomas J. Csordas -- Gender, healing, and the social production of health -- Political economy, gender, and the social production of health and illness / Linda M. Whiteford -- Women, work, and household health in the context of development / Carole H. Browner and Joanne Leslie --The impress of extremity : women's experience of trauma and political violence / Janis H. Jenkins -- Gender and health policy -- Women and health policy : on the inclusion of females in clinical trials / Jean A. Hamilton -- Risk, prevention, and international health policy / Carol MacCormack -- Gender relations, sexuality, and AIDS risk among African American and Latina women / Margaret R. Weeks, Merrill Singer, Maryland Grier, and Jean J. Schensul. |
| Subject |
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects. |
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Sexism in medicine.
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Sexism in medicine. |
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Women's health services -- Social aspects.
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Women's health services -- Social aspects. |
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Women's health services. |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Medical anthropology.
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Medical anthropology. |
| Indexed Term |
Women Health |
| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Sargent, Carolyn F., 1947-
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Brettell, Caroline.
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| ISBN |
0130794279 |
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