Product Description: Overwhelmingly, women are responsible for deciding how America's health care dollars are spent. If health care providers are to succeed in the coming years, they must meet the challenge of satisfying the needs of this powerful market...read more

Product Description: For four years this interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, including physicians, lawyers, philosophers, and social scientists, collaborated closely on the development of these essays. The result is an examination of both the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive handbook will provide nurses and other health-care professionals with a major new resource on women's health issues The handbook opens with a presentation of vital demographics, examining women's health within specific age groups...read more

Product Description: Challenging some of our most deeply held assumptions about mental health care, Women in Context explores the ways psychotherapy services for women are influenced by the larger therapy system and the sociopolitical context in which we live...read more

Product Description: Discussion on how women's individual rights, emotional and psychological stability and basic freedom over their own bodies are suppressed by male dominance in the areas of birth control, abortion, pregnancy, childbearing, PMS, and menopause.

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