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Title The politics of women's health : exploring agency and autonomy / the Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, Susan Sherwin ... [and others]
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998

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Description viii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction / Susan Sherwin / Voices from the Network -- 2. A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health Care / Susan Sherwin -- 3. Situating Women in the Politics of Health / Margaret Lock -- 4. The Politics of Health: Geneticization Versus Health Promotion / Abby Lippman -- 5. Contested Bodies, Contested Knowledges: Women, Health, and the Politics of Medicalization / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- 6. Agency, Diversity, and Constraints: Women and Their Physicians, Canada, 1850-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson -- 7. Reflections the Transfer of "Progress": The Case of Reproduction / Maria De Koninck -- 8. Anomalous Women and Political Strategies for Aging Societies / Margaret Lock -- 9. (Re)fashioning Medicine's Response to Wife Abuse / Marilynne Bell and Janet Mosher -- 10. Reframing Research Involving Humans / Francoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie and Susan Sherwin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-303) and index
Subject Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
Women's health services -- Political aspects.
Women's health services -- Social aspects.
Women's Health Services.
Women's Health.
Health Policy.
Author Sherwin, Susan, 1947-
Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network.
LC no. 98016025
ISBN 1566396328 (cloth : alk. paper)
1566396336 (paperback: alk. paper)