Prescribed norms : women and health in Canada and the United States since 1800 /

"By comparing ritual practices of various cultures, Prescribed Norms demonstrates how looking at women's health through a masculine lens has distorted current medical understandings of menstruation, menopause, and childbirth, and has often led to faulty medical conclusions. Warsh also illu...

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Hlavní autor: Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick, 1957-
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Toronto : University of Toronto Press ©2010.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctvg5bs69
Obsah:
  • Part I, Rituals. Wendy's last night in the nursery : the "disease" of menstruation and its treatment ; Gladys, take your medicine! The culture and business of menopause
  • Part II, Technologies. Traditional childbirth : mothers and babies ; Modern childbirth : mothers and doctors ; Future childbirth : doctors and babies
  • Part III, Professions. Networks of support, networks of opposition : the medical education of women ; Nursing : the science of womanly arts
  • Epilogue : the case for chaos.