Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine: Key Themes

by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

Offers a critique of biomedical approaches to personal and public health, and calls for more sociological input, qualitative research and an intersectional approach to help us understand various aspects of health and illness. This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762310588
• ISBN13: 9780762310586
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"