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Women, health, and the mind
- Title
- Women, health, and the mind / edited by Lorraine Sherr, Janet S. St. Lawrence.
- Publication
- Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©2000.
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Text | Use in library | RA564.85 .W6645 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 388 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- The growing interest in the psychology of women's health is reflected in the inclusion of a women's health component in Psychology and Health Sciences courses. This text offers an overview of women's health, covering theory and application.
- Subject
- Women > Health and hygiene > Psychological aspects
- Women > Mental health
- Clinical health psychology
- Women > Health and hygiene
- Women's Health
- Women > psychology
- Women > Health and hygiene
- Clinical health psychology
- Women > Health and hygiene > Psychological aspects
- Women > Mental health
- Medische psychologie
- Vrouwen
- Gezondheid
- Dones > Salut i Higiene > Aspectes psicològics
- Dones > Salut mental
- Psicologia de la salut
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Women's Health as a Medical Specialty and a Clinical Science / Eileen Hoffman and Charlea Massion -- 2. The Gendered Body: Body and Gender and the Inter-relationships with Health / Marrie H.J. Bekker -- 3. Gender, Power and the Health Care Professions / Paula Nicolson -- 4. Women and Clinical Trials / Lorraine Sherr -- 5. Private Violence, Public Complicity: The Response of Health and Social Services to Battered Women / Patrizia Romito -- 6. Women and Mental Illness / Jane M. Ussher -- 7. Agoraphobia: Sex-specific Stress or Sex-specific Coping? / Marrie H.J. Bekker -- 8. Gender, Stress and Coping: Do Women Handle Stressful Situations Differently from Men? / Denise T.D. de Ridder -- 9. Leading the Troops or Just Entertaining? Women, Humour and Stand-up / Bathsheba Doran -- 10. Psychological, Social, and Economic Implications of Bereavement Among Older Women / Christine L. McKibbin, Darrelle Koonce-Volwiler and Ruth C. Cronkite / [and others] -- 11. Working Conditions and Mental Health Among Women / Carina Bildt Thorbjornsson -- 12. Women and Depression / Margarita Alegria and Glorisa Canino -- 13. The Post-Modernisation of Motherhood / Rosemary Gillespie -- 14. Older Mothers and Later Motherhood / Julia C. Berryman -- 15. Sexual Victimisation of Girls: Implications for Women's Health and for Prevention / Judith Greenberg -- 16. Rheumatoid Arthritis: Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, and Treatment / Jennifer M. Grossman and Ernest Brahn -- 17. Women and HIV / Lisa Belcher and Janet St. Lawrence -- 18. Women, Cognition and the Menstrual Cycle / Louise Dye and John T.E. Richardson -- 19. Physical Activity, Leisure, and Women's Health / Susan M. Shaw and Karla A. Henderson -- 20. Substance Abuse in Women: Biological, Psychological and Social Issues Related to Treatment / Gloria D. Eldridge and James M. Fitterling.
- ISBN
- 0471998796
- 9780471998792
- LCCN
- 99040817
- OCLC
- ocm42022621
- 42022621
- SCSB-14659193
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library