Women's Health in Canada

Women's Health in Canada
Author: Marina Morrow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2008-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442690542

In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's health. This volume works toward filling that gap by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country. To lay out the methodological and theoretical foundations for their study, editors Olena Hankivisky, Marina Morrow, and Colleen Varcoe bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners from economics, anthropology, sociology, nursing, political studies, women's studies, and psychology. Contributors draw on the rich history of the Canadian women's health movement, providing analysis of that history and of the emergent theory, policy, and practice. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners, the collection adopts an intersectional approach, looking closely at social factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and gender identity, and analysing how they relate both to each other and to women's health. Connections between the social, economic, and cultural contexts of women's lives and their physical, spiritual, and mental well-being are a primary focus. Providing a much needed resource for teachers, students, and practitioners of women's health in Canada, this comprehensive volume makes an important contribution to the literature.

Women, Health, and Nation

Women, Health, and Nation
Author: Georgina D. Feldberg
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2003
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0773525009

This book examines North American women's engagement with their health systems and asks to what extent national citizenship has shaped women's health. Authors provide a much-needed analysis of the dynamic decades after 1945, when both Canada and the United States began using federal funds to expand health-care access and biomedical research and authority reached new heights. (Midwest).

Women’s Health in Canada

Women’s Health in Canada
Author: Marina Morrow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1442623969

Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking an intersectional approach to women’s healthcare, this book also focuses on the social and structural determinants at play. This revised and updated second edition brings together a collection of new chapters and contributors who collectively shed light on the problems and risks involved in perceiving women’s healthcare using a strictly "gender"- or "sex"-based lens. Contributors foreground an understanding of power as it is mediated through a range of social relations based on gender, race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, class, and geography and the ways in which privilege and oppression intersect to shape health and system responses to health. This new edition includes updates on what is currently known about women’s health nationally and internationally and situates the chapters in the current Canadian health care and policy context. Scholarship is foregrounded in new developments in gender and intersectional health research and policy. Collectively, this volume explores the important histories and contemporary realities in women’s health experiences.

Women's Health in Canada

Women's Health in Canada
Author: Marina Morrow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781442628472

This collection considers how health, and women's health are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.

Women's Health in Canada

Women's Health in Canada
Author: Olena Hankivsky
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0802039391

This volume fills a gap in Canadian healthcare scholarship by providing a resource for teaching and understanding women's health in this country.

Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare

Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare
Author: Lori d'Agincourt-Canning
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190051086

Numerous issues confront women's healthcare today, among them the medicalization of women's bodies, cosmetic genital surgery, violence against women, HIV, perinatal mental health disorders. This volume uniquely explores such difficult topics and others at the intersection of clinical practice, policy, and bioethics in women's health care through a feminist ethics lens. With in-depth discussions of issues in women's reproductive health, it also broadens scholarship by responding to a wider array of ethical challenges that many women experience in accessing health care. Contributions touch on many themes previously tackled by feminist ethics, but in new, contemporary ways. Some chapters expand into new fields in the bioethics literature, such as the ethical issues related to the care of Indigenous women, uninsured refugees and immigrants, women engaged in sex work, and those with HIV at different life stages and perinatal mental health disorders. Authors seek to connect theory and practice with users of the health system by including women's voices in their research. Bringing to bear their experience in active clinical practice in medicine, nursing, and ethics, the authors contemplate new conceptual approaches to important issues in women's healthcare, and make ethical practice recommendations for those grappling with these issues. Topical and up-to-date, this book provides a valuable resource for physicians, nurses, clinical ethicists, and researchers working in some of the most critical areas of women's health and applied ethics today.

Women's Health Forum:

Women's Health Forum:
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1035
Release: 1996
Genre:
ISBN:

Topics of papers presented in these proceedings of a women's health conference include: gender differences and gender specific conditions in US women's health; environmental impacts on women's health; women's occupational health; health aspects of violence against women; sexual and reproductive health rights; health of Aboriginal women; health promotion for women; women's health research; women and health service delivery; medical education and training; women in health leadership; gender as a determinant of health; legal, ethical, and legislative issues; health of minority women; and a review of women's health issues as outlined in the report of the fourth World Conference on Women.