Gender and health : an international perspective /
Gender and health : an international perspective /
edited by Carolyn F. Sargent, Caroline B. Brettell.
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1996.
- x, 370p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Gender, medicine, and health / Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell -- The language of science and medicine -- The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- Unnatural births : cesarean sections in the discourse of the "natural childbirth" movement / Helena Michie and Naomi R. Cahn -- Gender, health, and the life cycle -- The cultural constructions of the premenstrual and menopause syndromes / Dona Davis -- Gender, aging, and health : a comparative approach / Maria G. Cattell --Technology, gender, and health -- The technocratic body and the organic body : hegemony and heresy in women's birth choices / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Women and the debate over mammography : an economic, political, and moral history / Patricia A. Kaufert -- Gender, medical ethics, and personhood -- Cancer and women : some feminist ethics concerns / Susan Sherwin -- Boundary crossings : gender and power in clinical ethics consultations / Patricia A. Marshall -- A handmaid's tale : the rhetoric of personhood in American and Japanese healing of abortions / Thomas J. Csordas -- Gender, healing, and the social production of health -- Political economy, gender, and the social production of health and illness / Linda M. Whiteford -- Women, work, and household health in the context of development / Carole H. Browner and Joanne Leslie --The impress of extremity : women's experience of trauma and political violence / Janis H. Jenkins -- Gender and health policy -- Women and health policy : on the inclusion of females in clinical trials / Jean A. Hamilton -- Risk, prevention, and international health policy / Carol MacCormack -- Gender relations, sexuality, and AIDS risk among African American and Latina women / Margaret R. Weeks, Merrill Singer, Maryland Grier, and Jean J. Schensul.
This text examines how biology, medicine, health and ethical dilemmas are influenced by culture and shaped by social, political and economic forces.
9780130794277 (pbk.) : £14.95 0130794279
95037457
Medical anthropology.
Social medicine.
Women's health services--Social aspects
Sexism in medicine.
Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects
Medical policy.
Women's health services.
Women--Medical care
Health--Social aspects
Human biology
Public health & preventive medicine
Gender studies, gender groups
Anthropology
Health and Wellbeing.
Women's Health.
Women's Rights.
Philosophy, Medical.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Women Health
610.82 SAR
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Gender, medicine, and health / Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell -- The language of science and medicine -- The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- Unnatural births : cesarean sections in the discourse of the "natural childbirth" movement / Helena Michie and Naomi R. Cahn -- Gender, health, and the life cycle -- The cultural constructions of the premenstrual and menopause syndromes / Dona Davis -- Gender, aging, and health : a comparative approach / Maria G. Cattell --Technology, gender, and health -- The technocratic body and the organic body : hegemony and heresy in women's birth choices / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Women and the debate over mammography : an economic, political, and moral history / Patricia A. Kaufert -- Gender, medical ethics, and personhood -- Cancer and women : some feminist ethics concerns / Susan Sherwin -- Boundary crossings : gender and power in clinical ethics consultations / Patricia A. Marshall -- A handmaid's tale : the rhetoric of personhood in American and Japanese healing of abortions / Thomas J. Csordas -- Gender, healing, and the social production of health -- Political economy, gender, and the social production of health and illness / Linda M. Whiteford -- Women, work, and household health in the context of development / Carole H. Browner and Joanne Leslie --The impress of extremity : women's experience of trauma and political violence / Janis H. Jenkins -- Gender and health policy -- Women and health policy : on the inclusion of females in clinical trials / Jean A. Hamilton -- Risk, prevention, and international health policy / Carol MacCormack -- Gender relations, sexuality, and AIDS risk among African American and Latina women / Margaret R. Weeks, Merrill Singer, Maryland Grier, and Jean J. Schensul.
This text examines how biology, medicine, health and ethical dilemmas are influenced by culture and shaped by social, political and economic forces.
9780130794277 (pbk.) : £14.95 0130794279
95037457
Medical anthropology.
Social medicine.
Women's health services--Social aspects
Sexism in medicine.
Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects
Medical policy.
Women's health services.
Women--Medical care
Health--Social aspects
Human biology
Public health & preventive medicine
Gender studies, gender groups
Anthropology
Health and Wellbeing.
Women's Health.
Women's Rights.
Philosophy, Medical.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Women Health
610.82 SAR