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Book SynopsisOffers a critique of 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. This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined.
Table of ContentsGendered perspectives on medicine: an introduction (M.T. Segal et al.). Situating epidemiology (B.E. Jackson). Gendering the medicalization thesis (E. Riska). "Big Pharma" in our bedrooms: an analysis of the medicalization of women's sexual problems (H. Hartley). The continuum: somatic distress to medicalization in women with breast cancer: theoretical and empirical assessment (E.S. Breslau). Intersectionality and women's health: charting a path to eliminating health disparities (L. Weber, D. Parra-Medina). "We're not a part of society, we don't have a say": exclusion as a determinant of poor women's health (C. Reid). Rariu and Luo women: illness as resistance to men and medicine in rural Kenya (N. Luke). Biographical notes. Index.
