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Reframing Women's Health
Multidisciplinary Research and Practice

Edited by:
  • Alice Dan - University of Illinois, Carbondale

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Public Health

August 1994 | 432 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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 abuse. Part Five covers research issues including clinical, behavioural, feminist and legal perspectives. In conclusion, practice issues such as provider-patient relationships, weight control and lesbian health are explored.
Alice Dan
Introduction
 
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES AND MODELS
Angela Barron McBride and William Leon McBride
Women's Health Scholarship
From Critique to Assertion

 
Lila A Wallis
Why a Curriculum on Women's Health?
Karen Johnson and Eileen Hoffman
Women's Health and Curriculum Transformation
The Role of Medical Specialization

 
Gail Webber
Women's Health and Family Medicine
A Canadian Perspective

 
Susan Cohen et al
From Female Disease to Women's Health
New Educational Paradigms

 
Jean A Hamilton
Feminist Theory and Health Psychology
Tools for an Egalitarian, Woman-Centred Approach to Women's Health

 
Lucy Candib
Self-in-Relation Theory
Implications for Women's Health

 
Michelle Harrison
Women's Health
New Models of Care and a New Academic Discipline

 
 
PART TWO: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
Carmen Barroso
Building a New Specialization on Women's Health
An International Perspective

 
Sara Segal Loevy and Mary Utne O'Brien
Community Based Research
The Case for Focus Groups

 
Judy Norsigian
Women and National Health Care Reform
A Progressive Feminist Agenda

 
Judith Wuest
Institutionalizing Women's Oppression
The Inherent Risk in Health Policy Fostering Community Participation

 
Ruth Behar
My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lost Her Womb on This Side of the Border
Nada L Stotland
Contraception and Abortion
Challenges Now and for the Next Century

 
Leonore Tiefer
Women's Sexuality
Not a Matter of Health

 
Jean Hunt and Carol Joffe
Problems and Prospects of Contemporary Abortion Provision
Mary Driscoll et al
Women and HIV
 
PART THREE: VIOLENCE, ABUSE AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Mary P Koss
The Negative Impact of Crime Victimization on Women's Health and Medical Utilization
Carole Warshaw
Domestic Violence
Challenges to Medical Practice

 
Beth E Richie
Gender Entrapment
An Exploratory Study of the Link Between Gender-Identity Development, Violence Against Women, Race/Ethnicity, and Crime Among African American Battered Women

 
Lori Heise
Gender Based Abuse
The Global Epidemic

 
 
PART FOUR: RESEARCH IN WOMEN'S HEALTH
Sue V Rosser
Gender Bias in Clinical Research
The Difference it Makes

 
Michelle Oberman
Real and Perceived Legal Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials
Renee Royak-Schaler
Health Policy and Breast Cancer Screening
The Politics of Research and Intervention

 
Nanette Silva
Towards a Feminist Methodology in Research on Battered Women
 
PART FIVE: PRACTICE ISSUES
Sue Fisher
Is Care a Remedy?
The Case of Nurse Practitioners

 
Joan C Chrisler
Reframing Women's Weight
Does Thin Equal Healthy?

 
Anne Pollinger Haas
Lesbian Health Issues
An Overview

 
Carol J Gill, Kristi L Kirschner and Judith Panko Reis
Health Services for Women with Disabilities
Barriers and Portals

 
Diane Lauver
Factors Related to Secondary Prevention Behaviors for Breast Cancer
Denise C Webster
Tension and Paradox in Framing Interstitial Cystitis
Alice Dan
Epilogue
The Groundwork for Specialization in Women's Health

 

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