About this eTextbook
. Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness.
SIGNS labeled the first edition ‘a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries. They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist health care. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.
ISBNs for Gender and the Social Construction of Illness are 9780759116559, 0759116555 and the print ISBNs are 9780759102378, 0759102376. Additional ISBNs include 9780759102385.
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- Author: Judith Lorber; Lisa Jean Moore
- Publisher: AltaMira Press
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