Revisioning Women, Health and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives

Portada
Routledge, 12 nov 2013 - 384 páginas
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.

Dentro del libro

Índice

The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order
49
The Woman in the Flexible Body
97
Whose Science of Food and Health?
166
Acting on Images
187
The Girl in the Cast
202
Public Pregnancies and Cultural Narratives of Surveillance
231
A Study in Reproductive Technologies
254
Resisting Closure Embracing Uncertainties Creating Agendas
355
Index
365
Página de créditos

Otras ediciones - Ver todo

Términos y frases comunes

Sobre el autor (2013)

Adele E. Clarke is Associate Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is author of Disciplining Reproduction: American Life Scientists and the "Problem of Sex" (1998) and co-edited Women's Health: Complexities and Differences (1997) with Virginia L. Olesen and Sheryl Ruzek. Virginia L. Olesen is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco.

Información bibliográfica