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This long-awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world. The authors address a wide range of topics, from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological to issues such as stress from and adaptation to increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures. [Offers] a complex picture of women's experiences as seekers of health care in an increasingly multifaceted world in which traditional medical models and treatments have not vanished, but have been suppressed by Western therapies and therapists.
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This long awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world. The authors address a wide range of topics: from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological, to issues such as stress from, and adaptation to, increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures. Useful text for courses in Women's Health, Anthropology/Sociology of Medicine.
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This long-awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world. The authors address a wide range of topics, from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological to issues such as stress from and adaptation to increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures.
." . . this is an affordable, useful reference book for both practitioners and students and is consistent with the philosophy of nurse-midwifery."-Journal of Nurse-Midwifery " Offers a complex picture of women's experiences as seekers of health care in an increasingly multifaceted world in which traditional medical models and treatments have not vanished, but have been suppressed by Western therapies and therapists."-American Journal of Physical Anthropology ?. . . this is an affordable, useful reference book for both practitioners and students and is consistent with the philosophy of nurse-midwifery.?-Journal of Nurse-Midwifery ?[Offers] a complex picture of women's experiences as seekers of health care in an increasingly multifaceted world in which traditional medical models and treatments have not vanished, but have been suppressed by Western therapies and therapists.?-American Journal of Physical Anthropology "[Offers] a complex picture of women's experiences as seekers of health care in an increasingly multifaceted world in which traditional medical models and treatments have not vanished, but have been suppressed by Western therapies and therapists."-American Journal of Physical Anthropology
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- PublisherPraeger
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0897891392
- ISBN 13 9780897891394
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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