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The Psychology of Women’s Health and Health Care

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Paula Nicolson

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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  2. Jane Ussher

    1. University College, London, UK

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  3. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Paula Nicolson, Jane Ussher
    Pages 1-5

  3. Towards a Psychology of Women’s Health and Health Care

    • Paula Nicolson
    Pages 6-30

  4. Reproductive Rhetoric and the Blaming of the Body

    • Jane Ussher
    Pages 31-61

  5. Anorexia Nervosa: Displacing Universalities and Replacing Gender

    • Helen Malson
    Pages 62-91

  6. Female Sexuality and Health

    • Christine D. Baker
    Pages 92-123

  7. The Abortion Debate: An Analysis of Psychological Assumptions underlying Legislation and Professional Decision-Making

    • Mary Boyle
    Pages 124-151

  8. Psychological Aspects of Infertility and Infertility Investigations

    • Anne Woollett
    Pages 152-174

  9. Pregnancy and the Transition to Motherhood

    • Jonathan Smith
    Pages 175-199

  10. Talking about Good Maternity Care in a Multicultural Context: A Discourse Analysis of the Accounts of Midwives and Health Visitors

    • Harriette Marshall
    Pages 200-224

  11. The Psychology of Lesbian Health Care

    • Jan Burns
    Pages 225-248

  12. Women Psychologists in the Mental Health Professions The Adventures of Alice

    • Angela Douglas
    Pages 249-272

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 273-274
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The psychology of women's health is an area traditionally controlled by male-orientated scientists, psychologists and doctors. Women by definition have been unquestioningly seen and treated as deviant from the male norm. This model has been challenged by feminist historians and sociologists but not by psychologists who seem to have implicitly accepted the medical model and emphasised the pathology in women's behaviour and emotions. In this book women's views and their experience of their own health and health care are taken seriously and analysed within a psychological and a feminist angle.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Paula Nicolson

  • University College, London, UK

    Jane Ussher

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