Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book presents an insightful exploration of the theoretical and practical advances in women's health care. The opening part examines the various shapes that a new framework in women's health might take. Such issues as using the male experience as the norm, reducing women to merely reproductive entities, and promoting the notion of biological primacy are addressed. In the second part, contributors carry the argument for reframing women's health into the sociopolitical arena, looking at women in the Third World and at integrating women's health into health care reform. Part Three examines significant issues dealing with reproduction and sexuality, while Part Four focuses on the impact of violence and abuse. Part Five covers research issues including clinical, behavioural, feminist and legal perspectives. In conclusion, practice issues such as provider-patient relationships, weight control and lesbian health are explored.
Introduction - Alice Dan PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES AND MODELS Women's Health Scholarship - Angela Barron McBride and William Leon McBride From Critique to Assertion Why a Curriculum on Women's Health? - Lila A Wallis Women's Health and Curriculum Transformation - Karen Johnson and Eileen Hoffman The Role of Medical Specialization Women's Health and Family Medicine - Gail Webber A Canadian Perspective From Female Disease to Women's Health - Susan Cohen et al New Educational Paradigms Feminist Theory and Health Psychology - Jean A Hamilton Tools for an Egalitarian, Woman-Centred Approach to Women's Health Self-in-Relation Theory - Lucy Candib Implications for Women's Health Women's Health - Michelle Harrison New Models of Care and a New Academic Discipline PART TWO: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES Building a New Specialization on Women's Health - Carmen Barroso An International Perspective Community Based Research - Sara Segal Loevy and Mary Utne O'Brien The Case for Focus Groups Women and National Health Care Reform - Judy Norsigian A Progressive Feminist Agenda Institutionalizing Women's Oppression - Judith Wuest The Inherent Risk in Health Policy Fostering Community Participation My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lost Her Womb on This Side of the Border - Ruth Behar Contraception and Abortion - Nada L Stotland Challenges Now and for the Next Century Women's Sexuality - Leonore Tiefer Not a Matter of Health Problems and Prospects of Contemporary Abortion Provision - Jean Hunt and Carol Joffe Women and HIV - Mary Driscoll et al PART THREE: VIOLENCE, ABUSE AND WOMEN'S HEALTH The Negative Impact of Crime Victimization on Women's Health and Medical Utilization - Mary P Koss Domestic Violence - Carole Warshaw Challenges to Medical Practice Gender Entrapment - Beth E Richie An Exploratory Study of the Link Between Gender-Identity Development, Violence Against Women, Race/Ethnicity, and Crime Among African American Battered Women Gender Based Abuse - Lori Heise The Global Epidemic PART FOUR: RESEARCH IN WOMEN'S HEALTH Gender Bias in Clinical Research - Sue V Rosser The Difference it Makes Real and Perceived Legal Barriers to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials - Michelle Oberman Health Policy and Breast Cancer Screening - Renee Royak-Schaler The Politics of Research and Intervention Towards a Feminist Methodology in Research on Battered Women - Nanette Silva PART FIVE: PRACTICE ISSUES Is Care a Remedy? - Sue Fisher The Case of Nurse Practitioners Reframing Women's Weight - Joan C Chrisler Does Thin Equal Healthy? Lesbian Health Issues - Anne Pollinger Haas An Overview Health Services for Women with Disabilities - Carol J Gill, Kristi L Kirschner and Judith Panko Reis Barriers and Portals Factors Related to Secondary Prevention Behaviors for Breast Cancer - Diane Lauver Tension and Paradox in Framing Interstitial Cystitis - Denise C Webster Epilogue - Alice Dan The Groundwork for Specialization in Women's Health
