The Psychology of Women's Health and Health Care

by Paula Nicolson

The psychology of women's health is an area traditionally controlled by male-orientated scientists, psychologists and doctors. Women by definition have been unquestioningly seen and treated as deviant from the male norm. This model has been challenged by feminist historians and sociologists but not by psychologists who seem to have implicitly accepted the medical model and emphasised the pathology in women's behaviour and emotions. In this book women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333539621
• ISBN13: 9780333539620
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"