Subject |
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women's health services -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Medical geography.
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World health -- Case studies.
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Alt Name |
Dyck, Isabel.
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Lewis, Nancy, 1946-
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McLafferty, Sara, 1951-
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Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Why geographies of women's health? / Isabel Dyck, Nancy Davis Lewis, Sara Mclafferty -- Globalization, structural change, and political realignment: implications for women's health -- Women's health in Europe: beyond epidemiology? / Carol Thomas, Jan Rigby -- Scales of justice: women, equity, and HIV in East Africa / Susan Craddock -- Women workers and the regulation of health and safety on the industrial periphery: the case of Northern Thailand / Jim Glassman -- Looking back, looking around, looking forward: a woman's right to choose / Patricia Gober, Mark W. Rosenberg -- Providing and gaining access to health care: local areas and networks -- Home care restructuring at work: the impact of policy transformation on women's labor / Allison Williams -- "Thank God she's not sick": health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersey / Caroline Kerner, Adrian J. Bailey, Alison Mountz, Ines Miyares, Richard A. Wright -- Babies and borderlands: factors that influence Sonoran women's decision to seek prenatal care in southern Arizona / Cynthia Pope -- Differing access to social networks: rural and urban women in India with reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases / Suprabha (Sue) Tripathi -- Walking the talk: research partnerships in women's business in Australia / Lenore Manderson, Maureen Kirk, Elizabeth Hoban -- Embodied health and illness, perceptions, and place -- "The baby is turning": child-bearing in Wanigela, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea / Yvonne Underhill-Sem. |
Note |
Print version record. |
ISBN |
0203186028 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203186022 (electronic bk.) |
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041523607X |
OCLC # |
49569931 |
Additional Format |
Print version: Geographies of women's health. New York : Routledge, 2001 041523607X (DLC) 00045838 (OCoLC)45100177 |
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