The psychology of women's health and health care
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The psychology of women's health and health care
Macmillan, 1992
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Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780333539613
Description
The psychology of women's health is an area traditionally controlled by male-orientated scientists, psychologists and doctors. Women by definition have been unquestioningly seen and treated as deviant from the male norm. This model has been challenged by feminist historians and sociologists, but not by psychologists who seem to have implicitly accepted the medical models, and emphasized the pathology in women's behaviour and emotions. In this book, women's views and their experience of their own health and health care are taken seriously, and analyzed within a psychological and a feminist angle. It includes chapters from psychologists who work in research, teaching and practice. Paula Nicolson and Jane Ussher are co-editors of "Gender Issues in Clinical Psychology". Jane Ussher is the author of "The Psychology of the Female Body" and "Women's Madness: Mysogyny or Mental Illness".
Table of Contents
- Towards a psychology of women's health and health care, Paula Nicolson
- reproductive rhetoric and the blaming of the body, Jane Ussher
- anorexia nervosa - displacing universalities and replacing gender, Helen Malson
- female sexuality and health, Christina D. Baker
- the abortion debate - an analysis of psychological assumptions underlying legislation and professional decision-making, Mary Boyle
- psychological aspects of fertility and infertility investigations, Anne Woollett
- pregnancy and the transition to motherhood, Jonathan Smith
- talking about good maternity care in a multicultural context - a discourse analysis of the accounts of midwives and health visitors, Harriette Marshall
- the psychology of lesbian health care, Jan Burns
- women psychologists in the mental health professions - the adventures of Alice, Angela Douglas.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333539620
Description
The psychology of women's health is an area traditionally controlled by male-orientated scientists, psychologists and doctors. Women by definition have been unquestioningly seen and treated as deviant from the male norm. This model has been challenged by feminist historians and sociologists but not by psychologists who seem to have implicitly accepted the medical model and emphasised the pathology in women's behaviour and emotions. In this book women's views and their experience of their own health and health care are taken seriously and analysed within a psychological and a feminist angle.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables and Figures - Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction
- P.Nicolson & J.Ussher - Towards a Psychology of Women's Health and Health Care
- P.Nicolson - Reproductive Rhetoric and the Blaming of the Body
- J.Ussher - Anorexia Nervosa: Displacing Universalities and Replacing Gender
- H.Malson - Female Sexuality and Health
- C.D.Baker - The Abortion Debate: An Analysis of Psychological Assumptions underlying Legislation and Professional Decision-Making
- M.Boyle - Psychological Aspects of Infertility and Infertility Investigations
- A.Woollett - Pregnancy and the Transition to Motherhood
- J.Smith - Talking About Good Maternity Care in a Multicultural Context: A Discourse Analysis of the Accounts of Midwives and Health Visitors
- H.Marshall - The Psychology of Lesbian Health Care
- J.Burns - Women Psychologists in the Mental Health Professions: the Adventures of Alice
- A.Douglas - Index
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