Gender perspectives on health and medicine key themes /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-, Demos, Vasilikie P., Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2003.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed.
• Σειρά: Advances in gender research ; v. 7.
• Θέματα: Women > Health and hygiene > Sociological aspects.; Social medicine.; Health > Sex differences.; Medical care > Sex differences.; Gender Identity.; Social Medicine > methods.; Delivery of Health Care > ethics.; Women's Health > ethics.; Women's Rights.; Gender studies, gender groups.; Personal & public health.; Medical > Health Care Delivery.

This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined. From the essays in it, it is abundantly clear that medicine is a gendered and class-structured institution. Taken as a whole the volume offers a critique of exclusively biomedical approaches to personal and public health and calls for...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Gendered perspectives on medicine: an introduction / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
• Situating epidemiology / Beth E. Jackson
• Gendering the medicalization thesis / Elianne Riska
• "Big pharma" in our bedrooms: an analysis of the medicalization of women's sexual problems / Heather Hartley
• The continuum: somatic distress to medicalization in women with breast cancer: theoretical and empirical assessment / Erica S. Breslau
• Intersectionality and women's health: charting a path to eliminating health disparities / Lynn Weber, Deborah Parra-Medina
• "We're not a part of society, we don't have a say": exclusion as a determinant of poor women's health / Colleen Reid
• Rariu and Luo women: illness as resistance to men and medicine in rural Kenya / Nancy Luke.