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Women and health : power, technology, inequality, and conflict in a gendered world

Title
Women and health : power, technology, inequality, and conflict in a gendered world / Kathryn Strother Ratcliff.
Author
Ratcliff, Kathryn Strother, 1944-
Publication
Boston, MA : Allyn and Bacon, ©2002.

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Description
xii, 356 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Annotation
Subject
  • Women > Health and hygiene > Sociological aspects
  • Medical care > Sex differences
  • Health > Sex differences
  • Women > Health and hygiene
  • Social medicine
  • Women's Health
  • Sociology, Medical
  • Women > Health and hygiene
  • Social medicine
  • Health > Sex differences
  • Medical care > Sex differences
  • Women > Health and hygiene > Sociological aspects
  • Vrouwen
  • Gezondheid
  • Maatschappelijke aspecten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-346) and index.
Contents
Science and values -- Power and the clinical setting -- Poverty -- Violence against women -- Occupational health -- Cancer -- Women and body image -- Raging hormones -- Growing older -- Contraception and abortion -- The medicalization of chidbirth and the midwifery alternative -- Technology-assisted conception -- Fetal quality control -- Women as health care providers -- Health care activists -- Finding resources.
ISBN
  • 0205305970
  • 9780205305971
LCCN
2001018866
OCLC
  • ocm45841553
  • 45841553
  • SCSB-1225412
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library