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Author Demos, Vasilikie P.
Title Gender perspectives on health and medicine [electronic resource] ; Key themes / Vasilikie P. Demos, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld; Edited by Marcia Texler Segal.
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009.
Edition Illustrated ed.
Description 328 p. : ill.
Series Advances in gender research ; v. 7, 1529-2126
Emerald ebook.
Note(s) Emerald ebook.
Ebook. PDF.
Epublication rendering of: 9780762310586, 2003.
Contents Gendered perspectives on medicine: an introduction (M.T. Segal et al.). Situating epidemiology (B.E. Jackson). Gendering the medicalization thesis (E. Riska). "Big Pharma" in our bedrooms: an analysis of the medicalization of women's sexual problems (H. Hartley). The continuum: somatic distress to medicalization in women with breast cancer: theoretical and empirical assessment (E.S. Breslau). Intersectionality and women's health: charting a path to eliminating health disparities (L. Weber, D. Parra-Medina). "We're not a part of society, we don't have a say": exclusion as a determinant of poor women's health (C. Reid). Rariu and Luo women: illness as resistance to men and medicine in rural Kenya (N. Luke). Biographical notes. Index.
File Type Document
System Det PDF: Adobe PDF.
Note(s) IT Carlow ebook
Alt Author Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
ISBN 9781849502399
1849502390
ISSN 1529-2126
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