The politics of women's health : exploring agency and autonomy / the Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, Susan Sherwin [and others].

Date:
1998
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.

Physical description

viii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Relational approach to autonomy in health care / Susan Sherwin -- Situating women in the politics of health / Margaret Lock -- Politics of health : geneticization versus health promotion / Abby Lippman -- Contested bodies, contested knowledges : women, health, and the politics of medicalization / Kathryn Pauly Morgan -- Agency, diversity, and constraints : women and their physicians, Canada, 1850-1950 / Wendy Mitchinson -- Reflections on the transfer of "progress" : the case of reproduction / Maria De Koninck -- Anomalous women and political strategies for aging societies / Margaret Lock -- (Re)fashioning medicine's response to wife abuse / Marilynne Bell and Janet Mosher -- Reframing research involving humans / Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, and Susan Sherwin.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-303) and index

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    History of Medicine
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  • 1566396328
  • 1566396336