Health Psychology of Women

by Catherine A. Niven and Douglas Carroll

Book Overview

First Published in 1993. Since health psychology is concerned with the universal values of life and death, well-being and suffering, it might be expected that its researchers would be keen to examine both male and female experiences of these phenomena. In practice, however, health psychology has followed health research in adopting a largely male perspective, both in its general approach and selection of topics. Women are different from men, not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3718653362
• ISBN13: 9783718653362
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 214 Pages