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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Re-visiting Gender Justice in Health and Healthcare
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    Chapter 3 Gender Equality and International Health Policy Planning
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    Chapter 4 Gender Equity and Health Sector Reforms in Low and Middle-income Countries
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    Chapter 5 Gendering Health Human Resource Policy and Management
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    Chapter 6 Gender-sensitive Indicators for Healthcare
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    Chapter 7 Gender Assessment: European Health Research Policies
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    Chapter 8 Gender and the Medicalization of Healthcare
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    Chapter 9 Changing Gendered Patterns of Morbidity and Mortality
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    Chapter 10 Reproductive Regimes: Governing Gendered Bodies
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    Chapter 11 Coronary Heart Disease: Gendered Public Health Discourses
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    Chapter 12 Gender and Mental Health
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    Chapter 13 HIV/AIDS and Gender
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    Chapter 14 Gender and End-of-life Care
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    Chapter 15 Gender and Help-seeking: Towards Gender-comparative Studies
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    Chapter 16 Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilization in Later Life
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    Chapter 17 Men’s Health and Well-being
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    Chapter 18 The Healthcare Needs of Gay and Lesbian Patients
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    Chapter 19 Mothers and Children: What Does Their Health Tell Us about Gender?
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    Chapter 20 Gender, Health, Care and Place: Living in Rural and Remote Communities
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    Chapter 21 The New Management of Healthcare: ‘Rational’ Performance and Gendered Actors
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    Chapter 22 Old Age Care Policies: Gendering Institutional Arrangements across Countries
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    Chapter 23 Primary Prevention and Health Promotion: Towards Gender-sensitive Interventions
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    Chapter 24 Gender and Maternal Healthcare
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    Chapter 25 Women’s Health Centres: Creating Spaces and Institutional Support
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    Chapter 26 Women in the Medical Profession: International Trends
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    Chapter 27 Sex, Gender and Health: Developments in Medical Research
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    Chapter 28 Gender Mainstreaming at the Cross-roads of Eastern-Western Healthcare
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    Chapter 29 Nursing: Globalization of a Female-gendered Profession
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    Chapter 30 Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Gender and Marginality
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    Chapter 31 Conclusion
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Chapter title
Gender and the Medicalization of Healthcare
Chapter number 8
Book title
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, January 2012
DOI 10.1057/9781137295408_8
Book ISBNs
978-1-137-01514-3, 978-1-137-29540-8
Authors

Bell, Susan E., Figert, Anne E., Susan E. Bell, Anne E. Figert

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 32 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 16%
Student > Bachelor 5 16%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 6%
Lecturer 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 7 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 13 41%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 8 25%