Description: Exploring the dirty Side of Women's Health, Paperback by Kirkham, Mavis (EDT), ISBN 0415383250, ISBN-13 9780415383257, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this book, a team of international contributors examine bodies, leakage and boundaries, illuminating the contradictions and dilemmas in women’s healthcare. Using the concept of pollution, this book highlights how women and health issues are categorised, and health workers and women are confined to roles and places defined as socially appropriate. Th explores in-depth current and historical practices, such as:childbirth and midwifery practice policies and social practices around breastfeeding gynaecological nursing, female incontinence and sexually transmitted infections miscarriages and termination of pregnancy. Addressing things out of place, from the idea of 'dirty work’ to feeling 'dirty’, from diagnoses that disrupt our self-image to beliefs and practices which undermine health service provision, this book uses the contradictions in our thinking around pollution and power to stimulate thinking around women’s health.
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Book Title: Exploring the dirty Side of Women's Health
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Women's Health, Health Care Delivery, Allied Health Services / General, Anthropology / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Health & Fitness, Medical
Author: Mavis Kirkham
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Perfect
