Research Catalog

Title

Women, health, and the mind / edited by Lorraine Sherr, Janet S. St. Lawrence.

Publication

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Sherr, Lorraine.
• St. Lawrence, Janet S.

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