The most positive approaches to women's health frequently emerge from women's own endeavours to achieve physical and mental balance in their lives. Abandoning the artificiality of subject divides, this book engages with that ethos. Drawing on the experience of an interdisciplinary women's health initiative, Gwyneth Boswel and Fiona Poland l have assembled a formidable range of academic and professional experts in this highly accessible collection. Concepts of health are explored across disciplines which include psychology, law, history, health economics, nursing, counselling, social work and sociology.
Introduction: Exploring Women's Health: Differences. Discourses and Disciplines; F.Poland & G.Boswell PART 1: A PICTURE OF HEALTH: WOMEN'S HEALTH IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Images of Women's Health and Healing: Cultural Perscriptions?; V.Harris Disordered Minds: Women, Men and Unreason in Thought, Emotion and Behaviour; J.Busfield PART 2: BREAKING AND BUILDING BODIES Women and Deliberate Self-Harm; R.Doy Women, Drugs and Alcohol; J.Keene Beyond Health and Beauty: A Critical Perspective on Fitness Culture; R.Sassatelli Listening Within: Counselling Women in Awareness of the Body; J.Moore PART 3: GIVING WOMEN A VOICE: THE POWER OF HEALTH DIALOGUES Professional Control or Women's Choice in Childbirth? Is Either Possible?; W.Savage Pregnant Women and Consent to Treatment: From Autonomy to State Control and Back Again; B.Hewson Long-Term Psychological Effects of Child Sexual Abuse; G.Oaker Maternal Depression and the Needs of the Child; A.Grieg & D.Gregory Can Women with Learning Disabilities Access Good Health Care? A Case Study of Cervical Screening; C.Nightingale PART 4: BUILDING HEALTH IN POLICY AND PRACTICE Health Policy and Provision for Maternity Care in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century; M.Mugford & A.Macfarlane Ethnicity and Inequalities in Older Women's Health; H.Cooper & S.Arber Discursive Challenges: Reproductive Rights and Women's Well-Being in Developing Countries; C.Locke
