TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sargent,Carolyn F.
AU  - Brettell,Caroline B.
AU  - Sargent,Carolyn Fishel
AU  - Brettell,Caroline
TI  - Gender and health: an international perspective 
SN  - 9780130794277 (pbk.) :
U1  - 610.82 SAR 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, N.J.
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Women's health services
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sexism in medicine
KW  - Women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Health
KW  - Human biology
KW  - thema
KW  - Public health & preventive medicine
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Women's Health
KW  - Women's Rights
KW  - Philosophy, Medical
KW  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
N1  - 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
N2  - This text examines how biology, medicine, health and ethical dilemmas are influenced by culture and shaped by social, political and economic forces
ER  -