Reframing Women's Health: Multidisciplinary Research and Practice / Edition 1

by Alice Dan

Overview

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book presents an insightful exploration of the theoretical and practical advances in women's health care. The opening part examines the various shapes that a new framework in women's health might take. Such issues as using the male experience as the norm, reducing women to merely reproductive entities, and promoting the notion of biological primacy are addressed. In the second part, contributors carry the argument for reframing women's health into the sociopolitical arena, looking at women in the Third World and at integrating women's health into health care reform. Part Three examines significant issues dealing with reproduction and sexuality, while Part Four focuses on the impact of violence and

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803958609
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/07/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dan, Alice J. (Univ of Illinois at Chicago)

The contributors represent the specialties of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, family medicine, nursing, and health sciences. Most come from academic medical centers in the U.S. Institutions prominently represented include Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Univ of Chicago, Univ of Washington, and UCSF.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Alice Dan
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES AND MODELS
Women's Health Scholarship - Angela Barron Mc Bride and William Leon Mc Bride
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