Screen LibraryHandbook on gender and health /
This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, healthcare and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensi...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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International handbooks on gender
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| Summary: |
This Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, healthcare and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensions of health have become reworked across the globe. This collection includes insightful contributions from 56 leading authorities from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, offering a wealth of knowledge, theoretical reflection, and empirical detail on the essential elements su |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 603 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781784710859 1784710857 |
| Index Number: | RA564 |
| CLC: | R16-62 |
| Call Number: | R16-62/H236 |
| Contents: |
INTRODUCTION -- Gender and health: an introduction / GENDER, HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICY -- Agenda-setting in women's health: critical analysis of a quarter-century of paradigm shifts in international and global health / Gender, health and climate change / Towards a new political agenda for indigenous women's health in Latin America in the post-2015 era / Dangerous discourses? Silencing women within `global mental health' practice / |