Women's health : complexities and differences / edited by Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, Ade...
Women's health : complexities and differences / edited by Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, Ade...
Women's health : complexities and differences / edited by Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, Adele E. Clarke.
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1997.
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N613.04244/43
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English
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xix, 689 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Helen Rodriguez-Trias -- Pt. I. What Is Women's Health? 1. Social, Biomedical, and Feminist Models of Women's Health / Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Adele E. Clarke and Virginia L. Olesen. 2. Patterns and Puzzles: The Distribution of Health and Illness among Women in the United States / Deborah L. W...
8. Access, Cost, and Quality of Medical Care: Where Are We Heading? / Sheryl Burt Ruzek. 9. A Note from Louise: Understanding Women's Health in Appalachia / Judy M. Perry -- Pt. IV. Culture and Complexities. 10. Beauty Myths and Realities and Their Impact on Women's Health / Jane Sprague Zones. 11....
15. Women, Power, and Mental Health / Lynn Weber, Tina Hancock and Elizabeth Higginbotham. 16. Who Cares? Women as Informal and Formal Caregivers / Virginia L. Olesen. 17. Older Women: Income, Retirement, and Health / Vida Yvonne Jones and Carroll L. Estes -- Pt. VI. Power and Social Control. 18. Re...
20. The Ongoing Politics of Contraception: Norplant and Other Emerging Technologies / Cheri A. Pies -- Pt. VII. Challenges and Choices for the Twenty-first Century. 21. Research to Improve Women's Health: An Agenda for Equity / Deborah Narrigan, Jane Sprague Zones and Nancy Worcester [et al.]. 22. S...
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1997.
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Ohio
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
How well do national agendas address all women's health care priorities? What are the implications for social action? Particular attention is paid in this collection of essays to how race, class, gender, and culture shape and in turn are shaped by treatment options and health care for certain subpopulations among Native American, Latina, Asian Amer...
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Women's health : complexities and differences / edited by Sheryl Burt Ruzek, Virginia L. Olesen, Adele E. Clarke.
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Women and health series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1997.
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N613.04244/43
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ISBN
0814207057 (paper : alk. paper)
9780814207048 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814207049 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814207055 (paper : alk. paper)
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613.04244
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991001190779702626
