04362cam a2200577Ia 4500 ocn320373291 OCoLC 20171018091400.0 m d cr un||||||||| 090506s2003 ne a ob 001 0 eng d 9781849502399 (electronic bk.) : �70.95 ; � 102.95 ; $131.95 1849502390 (electronic bk.) : �70.95 ; � 102.95 ; $131.95 9780762310586 (hbk.) 0762310588 (hbk.) VVL eng VVL ZJC HQ46 .G46 2003 JFSJ bicssc MBNH bicssc MED035000 bisacsh 305 305.4 22 Gender perspectives on health and medicine [electronic resource] : key themes / edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, with Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2003. 1 online resource (vi, 330 p.) : ill. Advances in gender research, 1529-2126 ; v. 7 Includes bibliographical references and index. Gendered perspectives on medicine: an introduction / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld -- Situating epidemiology / Beth E. Jackson -- Gendering the medicalization thesis / Elianne Riska -- "Big pharma" in our bedrooms: an analysis of the medicalization of women's sexual problems / Heather Hartley -- The continuum: somatic distress to medicalization in women with breast cancer: theoretical and empirical assessment / Erica S. Breslau -- Intersectionality and women's health: charting a path to eliminating health disparities / Lynn Weber, Deborah Parra-Medina -- "We're not a part of society, we don't have a say": exclusion as a determinant of poor women's health / Colleen Reid -- Rariu and Luo women: illness as resistance to men and medicine in rural Kenya / Nancy Luke. This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined. From the essays in it, it is abundantly clear that medicine is a gendered and class-structured institution. Taken as a whole the volume offers a critique of exclusively biomedical approaches to personal and public health and calls for more sociological input, qualitative research and an intersectional approach to help us understand various aspects of health and illness. Among the recurrent themes in the seven essays are the medicalization of personal and social problems, the commodification of healthcare, and questions of agency, responsibility and control on the parts of recipients and dispensers of healthcare. Six of the seven essays deal with Western medicine exclusively, the seventh examines a situation where women have a choice between Western and traditional treatment. Timely topics such as somatic distress among women with breast cancer, drug company funding of research on women's sexual problems, and racial and ethnic health disparities are represented. A companion volume will focus on conventional and unconventional approaches to managing pregnancy and childbirth. The intended audience is the social science community, especially those who are interested in the social scientific study of medicine or of gender including those who may not be familiar with the areas in which the two overlap. Description based on print version record. Women Health and hygiene Sociological aspects. Social medicine. Health Sex differences. Medical care Sex differences. Gender Identity. Social Medicine methods. Delivery of Health Care ethics. Women's Health ethics. Women's Rights. Gender studies, gender groups. bicssc Personal & public health. bicssc Medical Health Care Delivery. bisacsh Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940- Demos, Vasilikie P. Kronenfeld, Jennie J. Print version: Gender perspectives on health and medicine. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/JAI, 2003 9780762310586 (OCoLC)52530944 Advances in gender research ; v. 7. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1529-2126/7 SSbacklist 223120 223120