Gender and the social construction of illness

摘要: Chapter 1: Gender and the Social Construction of Illness: Overview 2: Women Get Sicker, but Men Die Quicker: Epidemiology 3: Hierarchies in Health Care: Patients, Professionals, 4: Disability: Contradictions Status Dilemmas 5: If a Situation is Defined as Real: Premenstrual Syndrome Menopause 6: Genital Surgeries: Gendering Bodies 7: A Modern Plague: Aids 8: Healing Worlds: Feminist Healthcare