Women's health counts / edited by Helen Roberts.

Date:
1990
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About this work

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

Physical description

x, 248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Related material

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Notes

Statistical data reproduced from various sources.
Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.
Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: Politics.

Contents

Women's health counts / Helen Roberts -- Official statistics and women's health and illness / Alison Macfarlane -- Revealing women's health : re-analysing the general household survey / Sara Arber -- Measuring women's mortality differences / Helena Pugh and Kath Moser -- Hysterectomy : a change of trend or a change of heart? / Philip Y.K. Teo -- How do you count maternal satisfaction? a user-commissioned survey of maternity services / Claudia Martin -- Who's afraid of the randomized controlled trial? some dilemmas of the scientific method and "good" research practice / Ann Oakley -- Behaving well : women's health behaviour in context / Hilary Graham.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-241) and indexes.

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ISBN

  • 0415048907
  • 9780415048903