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GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND MEDICINE
KEY THEMES |
| By: |
Marcia Texler Segal (Editor), Vasilikie P. Demos, Jennie Kronenfeld |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£78.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1849502390 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781849502399 |
| Publisher: |
EMERALD PUBLISHING LIMITED |
| Pub. date: |
23 October, 2003 |
| Edition: |
Illustrated edition |
| Series: |
Advances in Gender Research 7 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
Offers a critique of biomedical approaches to personal and public health, and calls for more sociological input, qualitative research and an intersectional approach to help us understand various aspects of health and illness. This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined. |
| Synopsis: |
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 more sociological input, qualitative research and an intersectional approach to help us understand various aspects of health and illness. Among the recurrent themes in the seven essays are the medicalization of personal and social problems, the commodification of healthcare, and questions of agency, responsibility and control on the parts of recipients and dispensers of healthcare. Six of the seven essays deal with Western medicine exclusively, the seventh examines a situation where women have a choice between Western and traditional treatment. Timely topics such as somatic distress among women with breast cancer, drug company funding of research on women's sexual problems, and racial and ethnic health disparities are represented. A companion volume will focus on conventional and unconventional approaches to managing pregnancy and childbirth. The intended audience is the social science community, especially those who are interested in the social scientific study of medicine or of gender including those who may not be familiar with the areas in which the two overlap. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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