This innovative and comprehensive textbook provides a detailed exploration of the role of occupational therapy in addressing the unique needs of women across the lifespan....Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, this book looks at how fertility treatments fail women. At the time there was disturbing evidence of medical malpractice and invasive technologies which violated womens bodies and took a heavy toll on their lives. These shoc...Loe edasi...
In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. Originally published in 1985, this book describes the technologies being used and researched in the areas of in vitro fertil...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate and among the children below school-leaving age over half a million were illegitimate. Who are the parents of these children? Why do they not marry? These...Loe edasi...
What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address....Loe edasi...
This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in India, Kenya and Europe, it analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, sho...Loe edasi...
This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted womens health and healthcare across the world, this book will find readers among students in Public Health, Allied Health, Gender S...Loe edasi...
This book examines the roles and interconnections between structural factors and individual agency in marital violence, focusing on women in heterosexual marital relationships....Loe edasi...
This book examines the complexities of menstrual beliefs and practices in Nepal. Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach, it explores and promotes the rights of women, girls and people who menstruate, to a dignified and healthy menst...Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, this title looks at why it is that women come to care, and considers the legacy of their caring experiences. Because caring is usually a labour of love, the feelings that surround it are complicated and fraught with ambivale...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983, the primary focus of this title is women as a group and most of the contributors, who work from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, take a particular policy area and try to see what is happening to women within...Loe edasi...
This handbook looks at cross-cultural work on harmful cultural practices considered gendered forms of abuse of women. These include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), virginity testing, hymenoplasty, genital cosmetic surgery and child marriage....Loe edasi...
This accessible book draws on research around womens experiences to illustrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth, emphasizing practice implications for healthcare professionals and strategies for fostering posttraumatic growth....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1985, this, at the time, controversial book explores the fundamental changes in personal relationships that had taken place over the previous decade, focusing on women who had deliberately chosen to have children outside a pe...Loe edasi...
This innovative volume offers new insights into the social dimensions of emotional distress in abuse-related mental illness. Looking at how individuals can overcome the impact of abuse over the course of their lives, Moulding maps a feminist-informe...Loe edasi...
Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of womens desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective....Loe edasi...
This book presents evidence-based research on omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids including clinical trials based on description of their health and longevity-promoting health benefits....Loe edasi...
