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Title:

Gender perspectives on health and medicine : key themes / edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos with Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.

Publisher:

Elsevier/JAI,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

vi, 330 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Sociological aspects.--Sociological aspects.
Social medicine.
Health--Sex differences.
Medical care--Sex differences.

Other Authors:

Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
Demos, Vasilikie P.
Kronenfeld, Jennie J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Rariu and Luo women: illness as resistence to men and medicine in rural Kenya / Nancy Luke. 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 resistence to men and medicine in rural Kenya / Nancy Luke.

Series:

Advances in gender research ; v. 7

ISBN:

9780762310586
0762310588

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52530944

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)