Gender and health : an international perspective / edited by Carolyn F. Sargent, Caroline B. Brettell.

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TextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1996.Description: x, 370 p. ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0130794279

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DDC classification:

610.82 20 G

Contents:

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

Summary: Gender and Health: An International Perspective responds to a growing interest in the relationship between gender, health care organization and health policy. In examining this relationship, Sargent and Brettell demonstrate how biology, medicine, health and ethical dilemmas are informed by culture and shaped by social, political and economic forces.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library A10	Non-fiction	610.82 G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Available		00002570
Books	Main library A10	Non-fiction	610.82 G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.2	Available		00003687

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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

Gender and Health: An International Perspective responds to a growing interest in the relationship between gender, health care organization and health policy. In examining this relationship, Sargent and Brettell demonstrate how biology, medicine, health and ethical dilemmas are informed by culture and shaped by social, political and economic forces.

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