Gender perspectives on health and medicine : key themes.

This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined. From the essays in it, it is abundantly clear that medicine is a gendered and class-structured institution. Taken as a whole the volume offers a critique of exclusively biomedical approaches to personal and public health and calls for...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Demos, Vasilikie P (Contribuidor), Segal, Marcia Texler (Contribuidor), Kronenfeld, Jennie J (Contribuidor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Elsevier/JAI, 2003.
Colección:Advances in gender research ; v. 7.
Temas:
Women > Health and hygiene > Sociological aspects.
Social medicine.
Health > Sex differences.
Medical care > Sex differences.
Health services administration.
Health.
Human rights.
Psychosexual development.
Identification (Psychology)
Personality development.
Medical care.
Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
Social control.
Psychoanalysis.
Medical personnel.
Sociology.
Personality.
Gender identity.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Women's rights.
Social sciences.
Medicine
Patient Care Management
Health
Human Rights
Psychosexual Development
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
Identification, Psychological
Personality Development
Delivery of Health Care
Defense Mechanisms
Social Control, Formal
Psychoanalytic Theory
Health Occupations
Population Characteristics
Health Services Administration
Sociology
Health Care Economics and Organizations.
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
Personality
Disciplines and Occupations.
Psychological Theory
Gender Identity
Social Medicine
Women's Health
Women's Rights
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Social Sciences
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena.
Services de santé > Administration.
Santé.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Développement psychosexuel.
Identification (Psychologie)
Personnalité > Développement.
Prestation de soins.
Mécanismes de défense.
Contrôle social.
Psychanalyse.
Personnel médical.
Sociologie.
Personnalité.
Identité sexuelle.
Médecine sociale.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
Femmes > Droits.
Sciences sociales.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène > Aspect sociologique.
Santé > Différences entre sexes.
health.
psychoanalysis.
sociology.
sex role.
social sciences.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Personal & public health.
Medical > Health Care Delivery.
Medische sociologie.
Sekseverschillen.
Vrouwen.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gendered perspectives on medicine: an introduction / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
  • Situating epidemiology / Beth E. Jackson
  • Gendering the medicalization thesis / Elianne Riska
  • "Big pharma" in our bedrooms: an analysis of the medicalization of women's sexual problems / Heather Hartley
  • The continuum: somatic distress to medicalization in women with breast cancer: theoretical and empirical assessment / Erica S. Breslau
  • Intersectionality and women's health: charting a path to eliminating health disparities / Lynn Weber, Deborah Parra-Medina
  • "We're not a part of society, we don't have a say": exclusion as a determinant of poor women's health / Colleen Reid
  • Rariu and Luo women: illness as resistance to men and medicine in rural Kenya / Nancy Luke.

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