L. Davis Dona (ed.)

Gender, Health And Illness

The Case Of Nerves
Herausgeber: Davis, Dona L; Low, Setha M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This offers a varied perspective on the popular health/illness category of nerves. Relationships between gender and nerves are investigated in terms of biology and epidemiology, interpersonal and social relations, social construction of gender, affective and symbolic qualities of nerves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780891169031
• ISBN-10: 0891169032
• Artikelnr.: 21628800

Autorenporträt

Dona L. Davis Department of Social Behavior, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 George Beard and Lydia Pinkham
Dona L. Davis; Latin America; Chapter 2 Gender
Emotion
and Nervios in Urban Guatemala
Setha M. Low; Chapter 3 The Burden of Responsibility
Ruthbeth Finerman; Chapter 4 Notes on Nervios
Elyse Ann Barnett; Chapter 5 The Universality of Nerves
Kaja Finkler; Mediterranean and Northern Europe; Chapter 6 Nerves and Psychosomatic Illness
Laurie Krieger; Chapter 7 Nevra in a Greek Village
Mari H. Clark; Chapter 8 Living on their Nerves
Jeffrey A. Sluka; The United States; Chapter 9 Experience of Nervousness and Anxiety Disorders in Puerto Rican Women
Joan D. Koss-Chioino; Chapter 10 Nervios and Dysphoria in Mexican American Widows
Margarita Kay
Carmen Portillo; Chapter 11 Nerves
Worriation
and Black Women
Linda A. Camino;