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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780621303321

Titolo

Women, wellness, and the media [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Margaret C. Wiley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2008

ISBN

1-282-33435-2

9786612334351

1-4438-1180-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WileyMargaret C

Disciplina

613/.04244

Soggetti

Women - Health and hygiene

Women in mass media

Health in mass media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

As a former nurse and someone who now teaches Women's Studies, I have long been interested in the politics of health care. Today, most Americans would agree that our health care system is broken. We pay more for health care than any nation in the world, yet in 2007, the World Health Organization ranked us as 37th in quality of health care. Forty-six million Americans are now without health insurance. What is happening here? And just where are all these dollars going? In Women, Wellness, ...