| Description |
xxii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction - Alice Dan -- Part One: Perspectives And Models -- Women's Health Scholarship - Angela Barron McBride and William Leon McBride -- From Critique to Assertion -- Why a Curriculum on Women's Health? - Lila A Wallis -- Women's Health and Curriculum Transformation - Karen Johnson and Eileen Hoffman -- The Role of Medical Specialization -- Women's Health and Family Medicine - Gail Webber -- A Canadian Perspective -- From Female Disease to Women's Health - Susan Cohen et al -- New Educational Paradigms -- Feminist Theory and Health Psychology - Jean A Hamilton -- Tools for an Egalitarian, Woman-Centred Approach to Women's Health -- Self-in-Relation Theory - Lucy Candib -- Implications for Women's Health -- Women's Health - Michelle Harrison -- New Models of Care and a New Academic Discipline -- Part Two: Social And Political Issues -- Building a New Specialization on Women's Health - Carmen Barroso -- An International Perspective -- Community Based Research - Sara Segal Loevy and Mary Utne O'Brien -- The Case for Focus Groups -- Women and National Health Care Reform - Judy Norsigian -- A Progressive Feminist Agenda -- Institutionalizing Women's Oppression - Judith Wuest -- The Inherent Risk in Health Policy Fostering Community Participation -- My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lost Her Womb on This Side of the Border - Ruth Behar -- Contraception and Abortion - Nada L Stotland -- Challenges Now and for the Next Century -- Women's Sexuality - Leonore Tiefer -- Not a Matter of Health -- Problems and Prospects of Contemporary Abortion Provision - Jean Hunt and Carol Joffe -- Women and HIV - Mary Driscoll et al -- Part Three: Violence, Abuse And Women'S Health -- The Negative Impact of Crime Victimization on Women's Health and Medical Utilization - Mary P Koss -- Domestic Violence - Carole Warshaw -- Challenges to Medical Practice -- Gender Entrapment - Beth E Richie -- An Exploratory Study of the Link Between Gender-Identity Development, Violence Against Women, Race/Ethnicity, and Crime Among African American Battered Women -- Gender Based Abuse - Lori Heise -- The Global Epidemic -- Part Four: Research In Women'S Health -- Gender Bias in Clinical Research - Sue V Rosser -- The Difference it Makes -- Real and Perceived Legal Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials - Michelle Oberman -- Health Policy and Breast Cancer Screening - Renee Royak-Schaler -- The Politics of Research and Intervention -- Towards a Feminist Methodology in Research on Battered Women - Nanette Silva -- Part Five: Practice Issues -- Is Care a Remedy? - Sue Fisher -- The Case of Nurse Practitioners -- Reframing Women's Weight - Joan C Chrisler -- Does Thin Equal Healthy? -- Lesbian Health Issues - Anne Pollinger Haas -- An Overview -- Health Services for Women with Disabilities - Carol J Gill, Kristi L Kirschner and Judith Panko Reis -- Barriers and Portals -- Factors Related to Secondary Prevention Behaviors for Breast Cancer - Diane Lauver -- Tension and Paradox in Framing Interstitial Cystitis - Denise C Webster -- Epilogue - Alice Dan -- The Groundwork for Specialization in Women's Health |
| Analysis |
Women Health |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Research.
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Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
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Women's health services -- Political aspects.
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Women's Health.
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| Author |
Dan, Alice J.
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| LC no. |
94007456 |
| ISBN |
0803957734 (hbk.) |
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0803958609 (paperback) |
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