Women and Health : Cross-Cultural Perspectives Hardback
by Patricia E. Whelehan
Hardback
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This long-awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world.
The authors address a wide range of topics, from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological to issues such as stress from and adaptation to increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures. [Offers] a complex picture of women's experiences as seekers of health care in an increasingly multifaceted world in which traditional medical models and treatments have not vanished, but have been suppressed by Western therapies and therapists.
American Journal of Physical AnthropologyThis long awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world.
The authors address a wide range of topics: from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological, to issues such as stress from, and adaptation to, increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures.
Useful text for courses in Women's Health, Anthropology/Sociology of Medicine.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/07/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780897891387
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/07/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780897891387
