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245 0 0 _aGender perspectives on health and medicine
_h[electronic resource] :
_bkey themes /
_cedited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, with Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aAmsterdam ;
_aBoston :
_bElsevier/JAI,
_c2003.
300 _a1 online resource (vi, 330 p.) :
_bill.
490 1 _aAdvances in gender research,
_x1529-2126 ;
_vv. 7
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aGendered 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.
520 _aThis 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aWomen
_xHealth and hygiene
_xSociological aspects.
650 0 _aSocial medicine.
650 0 _aHealth
_xSex differences.
650 0 _aMedical care
_xSex differences.
650 2 _aGender Identity.
650 2 _aSocial Medicine
_xmethods.
650 2 _aDelivery of Health Care
_xethics.
650 2 _aWomen's Health
_xethics.
650 2 _aWomen's Rights.
650 7 _aGender studies, gender groups.
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650 7 _aPersonal & public health.
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650 7 _aMedical
_xHealth Care Delivery.
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700 1 _aSegal, Marcia Texler,
_d1940-
700 1 _aDemos, Vasilikie P.
700 1 _aKronenfeld, Jennie J.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tGender perspectives on health and medicine.
_b1st ed.
_dAmsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2003
_z9780762310586
_w(OCoLC)52530944
830 0 _aAdvances in gender research ;
_vv. 7.
856 4 0 _uhttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/1529-2126/7
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