The most positive approaches to women's health frequently emerge from women's own endeavours to achieve physical and mental balance in their lives. Abandoning the artificiality of subject divides, this book engages with that ethos. Drawing on the experience of an interdisciplinary women's health initiative, Gwyneth Boswel and Fiona Poland l have assembled a formidable range of academic and professional experts in this highly accessible collection. Concepts of health are explored across disciplines which include psychology, law, history, health economics, nursing, counselling, social work and sociology.…mehr
The most positive approaches to women's health frequently emerge from women's own endeavours to achieve physical and mental balance in their lives. Abandoning the artificiality of subject divides, this book engages with that ethos. Drawing on the experience of an interdisciplinary women's health initiative, Gwyneth Boswel and Fiona Poland l have assembled a formidable range of academic and professional experts in this highly accessible collection. Concepts of health are explored across disciplines which include psychology, law, history, health economics, nursing, counselling, social work and sociology.
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SARA ARBER Professor and Head of Sociology, University of Surrey JOAN BUSFIELD Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex HELEN COOPER Senior Methodologist, Office for National Statistics ROSIE DOY Lecturer, Primary Care and Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of East Anglia ANNE GRIEG Educational Psychologist, Argyll and Bute Psychological Services Council DAWN GREGORY Service and Development Manager (Child Mental Health), Norfolk Social Services Department VICTORIA HARRIS Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of East Anglia BARBARA HEWSON Barrister, Littman Chambers, 12 Gray's Inn Square JAN KEENE Professor of Primary Care, Department of Health and Social Care, University of Reading CATHERINE LOCKE Lecturer in Development Studies, School o Development Studies, University of East Anglia ALISON MACFARLANE Professor of Perinatal Health, Department of Midwifery, St. Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery, City University JUDY MOORE Director of Counselling, University of East Anglia MIRANDA MUGFORD Professor of Health Economics, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia CHRISTINE NIGHTINGALE Development Officer, University of Leicester GILLIAN OAKER Clinical Psychologist, Norfolk Mental Health Care Trust ROBERTA SASSATELLI Lecturer in Sociology, School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia WENDY SAVAGE Honorary Professor, Middlesex University, Department of Social Service, Medical School of St. Batholomew's and Royal London Queen Mary, University of London
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Exploring Women's Health: Differences. Discourses and Disciplines; F.Poland & G.Boswell PART 1: A PICTURE OF HEALTH: WOMEN'S HEALTH IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Images of Women's Health and Healing: Cultural Perscriptions?; V.Harris Disordered Minds: Women, Men and Unreason in Thought, Emotion and Behaviour; J.Busfield PART 2: BREAKING AND BUILDING BODIES Women and Deliberate Self-Harm; R.Doy Women, Drugs and Alcohol; J.Keene Beyond Health and Beauty: A Critical Perspective on Fitness Culture; R.Sassatelli Listening Within: Counselling Women in Awareness of the Body; J.Moore PART 3: GIVING WOMEN A VOICE: THE POWER OF HEALTH DIALOGUES Professional Control or Women's Choice in Childbirth? Is Either Possible?; W.Savage Pregnant Women and Consent to Treatment: From Autonomy to State Control and Back Again; B.Hewson Long-Term Psychological Effects of Child Sexual Abuse; G.Oaker Maternal Depression and the Needs of the Child; A.Grieg & D.Gregory Can Women with Learning Disabilities Access Good Health Care? A Case Study of Cervical Screening; C.Nightingale PART 4: BUILDING HEALTH IN POLICY AND PRACTICE Health Policy and Provision for Maternity Care in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century; M.Mugford & A.Macfarlane Ethnicity and Inequalities in Older Women's Health; H.Cooper & S.Arber Discursive Challenges: Reproductive Rights and Women's Well-Being in Developing Countries; C.Locke
Introduction: Exploring Women's Health: Differences. Discourses and Disciplines; F.Poland & G.Boswell PART 1: A PICTURE OF HEALTH: WOMEN'S HEALTH IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Images of Women's Health and Healing: Cultural Perscriptions?; V.Harris Disordered Minds: Women, Men and Unreason in Thought, Emotion and Behaviour; J.Busfield PART 2: BREAKING AND BUILDING BODIES Women and Deliberate Self-Harm; R.Doy Women, Drugs and Alcohol; J.Keene Beyond Health and Beauty: A Critical Perspective on Fitness Culture; R.Sassatelli Listening Within: Counselling Women in Awareness of the Body; J.Moore PART 3: GIVING WOMEN A VOICE: THE POWER OF HEALTH DIALOGUES Professional Control or Women's Choice in Childbirth? Is Either Possible?; W.Savage Pregnant Women and Consent to Treatment: From Autonomy to State Control and Back Again; B.Hewson Long-Term Psychological Effects of Child Sexual Abuse; G.Oaker Maternal Depression and the Needs of the Child; A.Grieg & D.Gregory Can Women with Learning Disabilities Access Good Health Care? A Case Study of Cervical Screening; C.Nightingale PART 4: BUILDING HEALTH IN POLICY AND PRACTICE Health Policy and Provision for Maternity Care in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century; M.Mugford & A.Macfarlane Ethnicity and Inequalities in Older Women's Health; H.Cooper & S.Arber Discursive Challenges: Reproductive Rights and Women's Well-Being in Developing Countries; C.Locke
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