The Psychology of Women's Health and Health Care

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 views and their experience of their own health and health care are taken seriously and analysed within a psychological and a feminist angle.

Inhalt
List of Tables and Figures - Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction; P.Nicolson & J.Ussher - Towards a Psychology of Women's Health and Health Care; P.Nicolson - Reproductive Rhetoric and the Blaming of the Body; J.Ussher - Anorexia Nervosa: Displacing Universalities and Replacing Gender; H.Malson - Female Sexuality and Health; C.D.Baker - The Abortion Debate: An Analysis of Psychological Assumptions underlying Legislation and Professional Decision-Making; M.Boyle - Psychological Aspects of Infertility and Infertility Investigations; A.Woollett - Pregnancy and the Transition to Motherhood; J.Smith - Talking About Good Maternity Care in a Multicultural Context: A Discourse Analysis of the Accounts of Midwives and Health Visitors; H.Marshall - The Psychology of Lesbian Health Care; J.Burns - Women Psychologists in the Mental Health Professions: the Adventures of Alice; A.Douglas - Index