Gender perspectives on health and medicine key themes

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...

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Other Authors Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-, Demos, Vasilikie P., Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2003.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesAdvances 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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849502399
1849502390
9780762310586
0762310588
ISSN1529-2126 ;
DOI10.1016/S1529-2126(2003)7
Physical Description1 online resource (vi, 330 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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