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Gender and the social construction of illness
- Author
- Lorber, Judith.
- Title
- Gender and the social construction of illness / Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Published
- Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.
- Description
- xiii, 184 p. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002003798.html
- Other contributors
- Moore, Lisa Jean, 1967-
- Uniform series
- Gender lens.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-175) and index. Paperback.
- Contents note
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- Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1
- Gender and the Social Construction of Illness: Overview
- Sex Differences and Gender Statuses
- The Social Construction of Illness
- The Social Context
- Overview of the Book
- CHAPTER 2
- Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker: Social Epidemiology
- Birthing and Getting Born: Have Money or Be a Boy
- Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Good and Bad Social Pressures
- Adulthood: Health by Choice or by Circumstances?
- Work and Family: Protection and Danger
- Old Age: Women Live Longer but Not Better
- Dying: Gendered Death Dips
- Summary
- CHAPTER 3
- Hierarchies in Health Care:
- Patients, Professionals, and Gender
- Hierarchies of Heath Care Providers
- Nurses: Doctor's Handmaidens or Partners?
- Gender and Physicians' Practice Styles
- Are Women Doctors Better for
- Women Patients?
- Can Women Doctors Change Health Care?
- Summary
- CHAPTER 4
- Gender and Disability:
- Contradictions and Status Dilemmas
- Gender Contradictions in Disability
- Gendered Caregiving
- Gender and Altruism
- A Man but Not a Man,
- a Woman but Not a Woman
- Toward a Continuum of Bodiedness
- Summary
- CHAPTER 5
- If a Situation Is Defined as Real:
- Premenstrual Syndrome and Menopause
- Medicalized Menstruation
- Cultural Constructions of Menstruation
- Ritual Menstruation
- Emotional Menstruation
- PMS: Hormonal Hurricane or
- High Energy State?
- Menopause: The End of Womanhood or
- the Beginning of a Valued Status?
- Politics of PMS and Menopause
- Transforming Diagnoses Back
- into Women's Troubles
- Summary
- CHAPTER 6
- Genital Surgeries: Gendering Bodies
- Female Ritual Genital Surgery
- Male Ritual and Medical Genital Surgery
- Genital Surgery on Intersexuals
- Politics of Genital Surgery
- Summary
- CHAPTER 7
- A Modern Plague: Gender and AIDS
- AIDS by the Numbers
- Social Paths of Transmission
- Safer Sex
- The Gender Politics of Risk and Prevention
- Mother-to-Child Transmission
- Living with AIDS
- "AIDS Is Everyone's Trojan Horse"
- Summary
- CHAPTER 8
- Healing Social Bodies in Social
- Worlds: Feminist Health Care
- Social Contingencies of Health Care Delivery
- Women's and Men's Health Movements
- Participatory Medical Encounters
- Being a Patient
- Making Changes
- Summary.
- Kinsey subjects
- Women medical advice. Women psychology.
- ISBN
- 0759102376 9780759102378 0759102384 (pbk.) 9780759102385 (pbk.)