Author: Adele E. Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317795431
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
Revisioning Women, Health and Healing
Author: Adele E. Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317795431
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317795431
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
Women's Health and Medicine: Transforming Perspect
Author: Alice J. Dan
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558614383
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A vital collection of essays on women's health and women's health studies, edited by leaders in the field.
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558614383
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A vital collection of essays on women's health and women's health studies, edited by leaders in the field.
The Menopause Industry
Author: Sandra Coney
Publisher: Spinifex Press
ISBN: 9781875559145
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This work challenges the stereotypes of women at mid-life and questions the pressures which the new preventative medicine is creating. It examines the benefits and risks of interventions such as hormone replacement therapy, mammography, and cervical screening.
Publisher: Spinifex Press
ISBN: 9781875559145
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This work challenges the stereotypes of women at mid-life and questions the pressures which the new preventative medicine is creating. It examines the benefits and risks of interventions such as hormone replacement therapy, mammography, and cervical screening.
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
Author: Susan L. Smith
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200276
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect and highlights the ways black health activists created public health programs and influenced public policy at every opportunity. Smith also sheds new light on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment by situating it within the context of black public health activity, reminding us that public health work had oppressive as well as progressive consequences.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812200276
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect and highlights the ways black health activists created public health programs and influenced public policy at every opportunity. Smith also sheds new light on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment by situating it within the context of black public health activity, reminding us that public health work had oppressive as well as progressive consequences.
Integrative Women's Health
Author: Victoria Maizes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199702624
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 713
Book Description
Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women's Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing comprehensive integrative care. Presenting the best evidence in a concise, accessible format, and written exclusively by female clinicians, this text addresses many aspects of women's health, including feminine perspectives on aging, spirituality and sexuality, specific recommendations for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, headaches, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety, and cancer, as well as integrative approaches to premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, menopause, fibroids, and endometriosis. Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners provide insight into the ways in which these systems manage reproductive conditions. As leading educators in integrative medicine, editors Dr. Maizes and Dr. Low Dog demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, but they also go beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199702624
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 713
Book Description
Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women's Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing comprehensive integrative care. Presenting the best evidence in a concise, accessible format, and written exclusively by female clinicians, this text addresses many aspects of women's health, including feminine perspectives on aging, spirituality and sexuality, specific recommendations for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, headaches, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety, and cancer, as well as integrative approaches to premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, menopause, fibroids, and endometriosis. Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners provide insight into the ways in which these systems manage reproductive conditions. As leading educators in integrative medicine, editors Dr. Maizes and Dr. Low Dog demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, but they also go beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing.
DES Daughters, Embodied Knowledge, and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics in the Late Twentieth Century
Author: Susan E. Bell
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592139205
Category : DES-exposed daughters
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
How the DES catastrophe created the feminist health movement.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592139205
Category : DES-exposed daughters
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
How the DES catastrophe created the feminist health movement.
Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women
Author: Ellison Banks Findly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A diverse array of scholars, activists, and practitioners explores how women are bringing about the change in the forms, practices, and institutions of Buddhism.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A diverse array of scholars, activists, and practitioners explores how women are bringing about the change in the forms, practices, and institutions of Buddhism.
Women and Alcohol
Author: Patsy Staddon
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447318897
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive look at the social meaning of women's alcohol use, building a rich social and environmental context through which the contributors can challenge current policy and practice in the field. Raising concerns about the political role of alcohol abuse treatment in policing women's behavior, it aims to develop a new approach to women's drinking and new ways of aiding recovery at national and local levels.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447318897
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive look at the social meaning of women's alcohol use, building a rich social and environmental context through which the contributors can challenge current policy and practice in the field. Raising concerns about the political role of alcohol abuse treatment in policing women's behavior, it aims to develop a new approach to women's drinking and new ways of aiding recovery at national and local levels.
Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing
Author: Susan Wells
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804773726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as popular as ever. This study tells the story of the first two decades of the pioneering best-seller—a collectively produced guide to women's health—from its earliest, most experimental and revolutionary years, when it sought to construct a new, female public sphere, to its 1984 revision, when some of the problems it first posed were resolved and the book took the form it has held to this day. Wells undertakes a rhetorical and sociological analysis of the best-seller and of the work of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective that produced it. In the 1960s and 1970s, as social movements were on the rise and many women entered higher education, new writing practices came into existence. In the pages of Our Bodies, Ourselves, matters that had been private became public. Readers, encouraged to trust their own experiences, began to participate in a conversation about health and medicine. The writers of Our Bodies, Ourselves researched medical texts and presented them in colloquial language. Drafting and revising in groups, they invented new ways of organizing the task of writing. Above all, they presented medical information by telling stories. We learn here how these stories were organized, and how the writers drew readers into investigating both their own bodies and the global organization of medical care. Extensive archival research and interviews with the members of the authorial collective shed light on a grassroots undertaking that revolutionized the writing of health books and forever changed the relationship between health experts and ordinary women.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804773726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as popular as ever. This study tells the story of the first two decades of the pioneering best-seller—a collectively produced guide to women's health—from its earliest, most experimental and revolutionary years, when it sought to construct a new, female public sphere, to its 1984 revision, when some of the problems it first posed were resolved and the book took the form it has held to this day. Wells undertakes a rhetorical and sociological analysis of the best-seller and of the work of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective that produced it. In the 1960s and 1970s, as social movements were on the rise and many women entered higher education, new writing practices came into existence. In the pages of Our Bodies, Ourselves, matters that had been private became public. Readers, encouraged to trust their own experiences, began to participate in a conversation about health and medicine. The writers of Our Bodies, Ourselves researched medical texts and presented them in colloquial language. Drafting and revising in groups, they invented new ways of organizing the task of writing. Above all, they presented medical information by telling stories. We learn here how these stories were organized, and how the writers drew readers into investigating both their own bodies and the global organization of medical care. Extensive archival research and interviews with the members of the authorial collective shed light on a grassroots undertaking that revolutionized the writing of health books and forever changed the relationship between health experts and ordinary women.
Inclusion
Author: Steven Epstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226213110
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them would apply to the rest of the population. But struggles involving advocacy groups, experts, and Congress led to reforms that forced researchers to diversify the population from which they drew for clinical research. While the prominence of these inclusive practices has offered hope to traditionally underserved groups, Epstein argues that it has drawn attention away from the tremendous inequalities in health that are rooted not in biology but in society. “Epstein’s use of theory to demonstrate how public policies in the health profession are shaped makes this book relevant for many academic disciplines. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “A masterful comprehensive overview of a wide terrain.”—Troy Duster, Biosocieties
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226213110
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them would apply to the rest of the population. But struggles involving advocacy groups, experts, and Congress led to reforms that forced researchers to diversify the population from which they drew for clinical research. While the prominence of these inclusive practices has offered hope to traditionally underserved groups, Epstein argues that it has drawn attention away from the tremendous inequalities in health that are rooted not in biology but in society. “Epstein’s use of theory to demonstrate how public policies in the health profession are shaped makes this book relevant for many academic disciplines. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “A masterful comprehensive overview of a wide terrain.”—Troy Duster, Biosocieties