Gender perspectives on health and medicine key themes

• Other Authors: Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-, Demos, Vasilikie P., Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• 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.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849502399; 1849502390; 9780762310586; 0762310588
• ISSN: 1529-2126 ;
• DOI: 10.1016/S1529-2126(2003)7
• 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...