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This long-awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world. The authors address a wide range of topics, from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological to issues such as stress from and adaptation to increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures. [Offers] a complex picture of women's experiences as seekers of health care in an increasingly multifaceted world in which traditional medical models and treatments have not vanished, but have been suppressed by Western therapies and therapists.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
This long awaited, holistic, and cross-cultural survey demonstrates the effects of varying economic, political, social and cultural conditions on women's health throughout the world. The authors address a wide range of topics: from the sexual, reproductive, and gynecological, to issues such as stress from, and adaptation to, increased urbanization, changing work roles, and family structures. Useful text for courses in Women's Health, Anthropology/Sociology of Medicine.
Contents
Preface Intrduction Variations in Traditional Life-Cycle Concerns 'Bad Blood' and the Cultural Management of Health in a Newfoundland Fishing Community When is a Midwife a Witch? A Case Study from a Modernizing Maya Village La Edad Critica: The Positive Experience of Menopause in a Small Peruvian Town The Social Significance of Elective Hysterectomy The Effects of Culture Change on Women's Health The Need for a Supportive Doula in and Increasingly Urban Worls Health and Health-Seeking Behavior of Turkish Women in Berlin The Insufficient Milk Syndrome: Biological Epidemic or Cultural Construction? Women's Suicide in Sri Lanka Women in Conflict: Stress and Urbanization in a British Mining Town Health Care Concerns Related to Stress Compadrazgo as a Protective Mechanism in Depression The Price of Power: Gender Roles and Stress-Induced Depression in Andean Ecuador Women and Stress in Brunei Women in Vietnam: The War Without and the War Within Index
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