Communicating women's health : social and cultural norms that influence health decisions

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Gatison, Annette Madlock

Publisher

New York: Rouledge, 2016

Language

English

ISBN

9781138841611

Series

Subject(s)

• CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS
• WOMEN'S HEALTH
• SEXISM
• PATIENT PARTICIPATION
• HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES
• HEALTH COMMUNICATION

Notes

. . Index: p. 197-199

Abstract

This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to control of their own sexuality, reproductive lives, and health. By giving voice to these women’s experiences, the book shines a light on ways to improve health communication for women.

Bringing together personal narratives, key theory and literature, and original qualitative and quantitative studies, the book provides an in-depth comparative picture of how and why women’s health varies for distinct groups of women. Organized into four parts―historical influences on patient and provider perceptions, breast cancer the silence and the shame, make it taboo: mothering, reproduction, and womanhood, and sex, sexuality, relational health, and womanhood―each section is introduced with a brief synthesis and discussion of the key questions addressed across the chapters.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

199 p.

Dimension

24 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Voices from the past : understanding the impact of historical discrimination in today's healthcare system / Katie Love --
The culture of medicine : a critical auto-ethnography of my encounter with the healthcare system / Denise Hooks-Anderson and Reynaldo Anderson --
Pink is for (survivor) girls : late-stage breast cancer, silence an pink ribbon culture / Elizabeth M. Davis --
Breast cancer and shame / Sarah Hochstetler --
Giving voice to women's childbirth preferences / Edith LeFebvre and Carmen Stitt --
Hush, little baby, don't say a word : nursing narratives through new media / Andre E.C. Betancourt and Elise E. Labb --
What do prenatal and postnatal women discuss with their healthcare providers? / Yuping Mao and Lu Shi --
Japanese women's suicide and depression under the panopticon of a patriarchal family system / Kimiko Akita --
Sexual and relational health messages for women who have sex with women / Sandra L. Faulkner, Andrea M. Davis, Manda V. Hicks, and Pamela J. Lannutti --
Does this mean I'm dirty : the complexities of choice in women's conversations about HPV vaccinations / Jennifer Malkowski --
American menstruation rhetoric as sanitized discourse : iterating stigma through print advertisements / Erika M. Thomas --
Voicing women's abortion stories within larger cultural narratives / Jamie L. Huber.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00098/17	613.04244 Com	Fakultas Kedokteran	Available