Product Description: Examines the training of our physicians and shows us how "scientific objectivity" reinforces cultural biases based on gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. But, Wear argues, when wise teachers use literature and art to decode the scripts of traditional medical education, doctors can learn to bring into their practices the healing values of imagination, empathy, and social justice...read more

Product Description: Books on women's health tend to have a polemical, 'how to' emphasis and to focus on single issues. This challenging new book looks at women's health more broadly. It mounts an argument as to why women experience more of certain health problems than men by referring to interconnected issues...read more

What makes women sick? To an Ecuadorean woman, it’s nervios from constant worry about her children’s illnesses. To a woman working in a New Mexico electronics factory, it’s the solvents that leave her with a form of dementia. To a Ugandan woman, it’s HIV from her husband's sleeping with the widow of an AIDS patient. To a Bangladeshi woman, it’s a fatal infection following an IUD insertion. What they all share is a recognition that their sickness is somehow caused by  situations they face every day at home and at work.In this clearly written and compelling book, Lesley Doyal investigates the effects of social, economic, and cultural conditions on women’s health. The “fault line” of gender that continues to divide all societies has, Doyal demonstrates, profound and pervasive consequences for the health of women throughout the world. Her broad synthesis highlights variations between men and women in patterns of health and illness, and it identifies inequalities in medical care that separate groups of women from each other. Doyal’s wide-ranging arguments, her wealth of data, her use of women’s voices from many cultures—and her examples of women mobilizing to find their own solutions—make this book required reading for everyone concerned with women’s health.

Product Description: This text examines the ways in which our understanding of nursing is gendered, and how our notion of nursing is connected to our idea of what it is to be a woman. It explores the implications this connection has for the status of nursing as a profession, and re-examines some of the fundamental questions that the nursing profession has tried to address, such as: what is nursing care?; who should do it?; why is it so difficult to manage the provision of nursing care? "Gender and the Professional Predicament in Nursing" demonstrates that once nurses try to define and shape the nature of their work they are marginalized or silenced...read more