Women's health : a relational perspective across the life cycle / Judith A. Lewis, Judith Bernstein.

"'Women's Health' offers an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to women's health appropriate for courses in women's studies and nursing. The historical, sociocultural, biophysiological, and psychosocial aspects of women's health and development are woven toget...

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Main Author: Lewis, Judith A., 1945-
Other Authors: Bernstein, Judith, 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, ℗♭1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • The modern health care system and gender bias: the historical and ideological context
  • The traditional model of women's growth and development: a deficiency theory
  • Relational psychology: a reframing of the strengths of women
  • The female voice: women's ways of knowing and communicating
  • The interaction of gender, class, and race
  • Adolescence
  • The reproductive years
  • Peri-menopause
  • Growing older
  • Women as individuals
  • Women in the context of their family and community: implications for public and social policy
  • The global context of women's health care
  • Developing a new model for the care of women.