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9780333919699

Women's Minds, Women's Bodies : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Women's Health

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    9780333919699

  • ISBN10:

    0333919696

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2003-02-08
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

The most positive approaches to women's health frequently emerge from women's own endeavors to achieve physical and mental balance in their lives. Abandoning the artificiality of subject divides, this book engages with that ethos. Drawing on the experience of an interdisciplinary women's health initiative, Fiona Poland and Gwyneth Boswell have assembled a formidable range of academic and professional experts in this highly accessible collection. Concepts of health are explored across disciplines which include psychology, law, history, health economics, nursing, counseling, social work, and sociology.

Author Biography

Fiona Poland is at the School of Occupational Therapy and Psychotherapy, University of East Anglia.

Gwyneth Boswell is at the Community and Criminal Justice Unit, De Montfort University, Leicester.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
ix
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on the Contributors xii
Introduction: Exploring Women's Health: Differences, Discourses and Disciplines 1(20)
Gwyneth Boswell
Fiona Poland
Part I `A Picture of Health': Women's Health in Historical Context
Images of Women's Health and Healing: Cultural Prescriptions?
21(15)
Victoria Harris
Disordered Minds: Women, Men and Unreason in Thought, Emotion and Behaviour
36(15)
Joan Busfield
Part II Breaking and Building Bodies
Women and Deliberate Self-Harm
51(14)
Rosie Doy
Women, Drugs and Alcohol
65(12)
Jan Keene
Beyond Health and Beauty: A Critical Perspective on Fitness Culture
77(12)
Roberta Sassatelli
Listening Within: Counselling Women in Awareness of the Body
89(14)
Judy Moore
Part III Giving Women a Voice: The Power of Health Dialogues
Professional Control or Women's Choice in Childbirth? Is Either Possible?
103(13)
Wendy Savage
Pregnant Women and Consent to Treatment - from Autonomy to State Control and Back Again
116(13)
Barbara Hewson
Long-Term Psychological Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
129(15)
Gillian Oaker
Maternal Depression and the Needs of the Child
144(12)
Anne Greig
Dawn Gregory
Can Women with Learning Disabilities Access Good Health Care? A Case Study of Cervical Screening
156(17)
Christine Nightingale
Part IV Building Health in Policy and Practice
Health Policy and Provision for Maternity Care in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century
173(19)
Miranda Mugford
Alison Macfarlane
Ethnicity and Inequalities in Older Women's Health
192(16)
Helen Cooper
Sara Arber
Discursive Challenges: Reproductive Rights and Women's Well-Being in Developing Countries
208(13)
Catherine Locke
References 221(26)
Name Index 247(7)
Subject Index 254

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