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Title Women and health : cross-cultural perspectives / [edited by] Patricia Whelehan and contributors.

Publication Info. Granby, Mass. : Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1988.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.4 W872W    Check Shelf
Description x, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Note Cover title: Women & health.
Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 204-224.
Contents Bad blood and the cultural management of health in a Newfoundland fishing community / Dona Lee Davis -- When is a midwife a witch? A case study from a modernizing Maya village / Betty B. Faust -- La edad critica: the positive experience of menopause in a small Perusian town / Elyse Ann Barnett -- The social significance of elective hysterectomy / Linnea Klee -- The need for a supportive Doula in an increasingly urban world / Dana Raphael -- Health and health-seeking
behavior of Turkish women in Berlin / Judith A. Marmor -- The insufficient milk syndrome: biological epidemic or cultural construction / Penny Van Esterik -- Women's suicide in Sri Lanka / Barbara D. Miller and Robert N. Kearney -- Women in conflict: stress and urbanization in a British mining town / Jane Szurek -- Compadrazgo as a protective mechanism in depression / Anna Baziak Dugan -- The price of power: gender roles and stress-induced depression in Andean Ecuador /
Ruthbeth D. Fineman -- Women and stress in Brunei / Linda Amy Kimball and Shawna Craig -- Women in Vietnam: the war without and the war within / Elaine Fox.
Subject Women -- Health and hygiene -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women's health services -- Cross-cultural studies.
Added Author Whelehan, Patricia.
ISBN 0897891392 paperback alkaline paper $18.95
0897891384 hardcover alkaline paper $49.95
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