Gender perspectives on health and medicine key themes

• Other Authors: Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-, Demos, Vasilikie P., Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Advances in gender research ; v. 7.
• Subjects: 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.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849502399 (electronic bk.) : 1849502390 (electronic bk.) : 9780762310586 (hbk.); 0762310588 (hbk.)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 330 p.) : ill.

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...