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Prescribed norms : women and health in Canada and the United States since 1800 /
"By comparing ritual practices of various cultures, Prescribed Norms demonstrates how looking at women's health through a masculine lens has distorted current medical understandings of menstruation, menopause, and childbirth, and has often led to faulty medical conclusions. Warsh also illu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "By comparing ritual practices of various cultures, Prescribed Norms demonstrates how looking at women's health through a masculine lens has distorted current medical understandings of menstruation, menopause, and childbirth, and has often led to faulty medical conclusions. Warsh also illuminates how the shift from informal to more formal, institutionalized treatment impacts both women's health care and women's roles as health practitioners"--Pub. info |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 316 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-303) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442686557 1442686553 |