Reframing women's health : multidisciplinary research and practice / / edited by Alice J. Dan

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, [Calif.], : Sage Publications, c1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 410 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 362.1/98
• Soggetto topico: Women - Health and hygiene - Research; Women - Health and hygiene - Sociological aspects; Women's health services - Political aspects
• Altri autori: DanAlice J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Part I - Perspectives and Models; Chapter 1 - Women's Health Scholarship: From Critique to Assertion; Chapter 2 - Why a Curriculum on Women's Health?; Chapter 3 - Women's Health and Curriculum Transformation: The Role of Medical Specialization; Chapter 4 - Women's Health and Family Medicine: A Canadian Perspective; Chapter 5 - From Female Disease to Women's Health: New Educational Paradigms; Chapter 6 - Feminist Theory and Health Psychology: Tools for an Egalitarian, Woman-Centered Approach to Women's Health ; Chapter 7 - Self-in-Relation Theory: Implications for Women's HealthChapter 8 - Women's Health: New Models of Care and a New Academic Discipline; Part II - Social and Political Issues; Chapter 9 - Building a New Specialization on Women's Health: An International Perspective; Chapter 10 - Community-Based Research: The Case for Focus Groups; Chapter 11 - Women and National Health Care Reform: A Progressive Feminist Agenda; Chapter 12 - Institutionalizing Women's Oppression: The Inherent Risk in Health Policy Fostering Community Participation ; Chapter 13 - My Mexican Friend Marta, Who Lost Her Womb on This Side of the BorderPart III - Reproductive Health and Sexuality; Chapter 14 - Contraception and Abortion: Challenges Now and for the Next Century; Chapter 15 - Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health; Chapter 16 - Problems and Prospects of Contemporary Abortion Provision; Chapter 17 - Women and HIV; Part IV - Violence, Abuse, and Women's Health; Chapter 18 - The Negative Impact of Crime Victimization on Women's Health and Medical Use; Chapter 19 - Domestic Violence: Challenges to Medical Practice ; Chapter 20 - Gender Entrapment: An Exploratory StudyChapter 21 - Gender-Based Abuse: The Global Epidemic; Part V - Research in Women's Health; Chapter 22 - Gender Bias in Clinical Research: The Difference It makes; Chapter 23 - Real and Perceived Legal Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials; Chapter 24 - Health Policy and Breast Cancer Screening: The Politics of Research and Intervention; Chapter 25 - Toward a Feminist Methodology in Research on Battered Women; Part VI - Practice Issues; Chapter 26 - Is Care a Remedy? The Case of Nurse Practitioners ; Chapter 27 - Reframing Women's Weight: Does Thin Equal Healthy?Chapter 28 - Lesbian Health Issues: An Overview; Chapter 29 - Health Services for Women with Disabilities: Barriers and Portals; Chapter 30 - Factors Related to Secondary Prevention Behaviors for Breast Cancer; Chapter 31 - Tension and Paradox in Framing Interstitial Cystitis; Epilogue: An Invitation; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book presents an insightful exploration of the theoretical and practical advances in women's health care. The opening part examines the various shapes that a new framework in women's health might take. Such issues as using the male experience as the norm, reducing women to merely reproductive entities, and promoting the notion of biological primacy are addressed. In the second part, contributors carry the argument for reframing women's health into the sociopolitical arena, looking at women in the Third World and at integrating women's health into heal
• Titolo autorizzato: Reframing women's health
• ISBN: 1-4833-2709-4; 1-4522-5520-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813805203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II