The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349311359 ISBN 13 : 9781349311354

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare marks the coming of age of the rapidly growing field of gender and health. Providing detailed and nuanced analyses of different aspects of healthcare - equity, access, service delivery, the healthcare professions this Handbook moves the field s boundaries farther and deeper. It will be difficult for anyone after this to look at healthcare without a gender lens. This is absolutely essential reading for all healthcare students and professionals.' - Professor Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management, India

'This is a veritable treasure trove and an exemplary demonstration of how active editing can produce a Handbook accessible to practitioners and students alike. Our thinking about gender and health and about gender mainstreaming will never be the same again.' - Celia Davies, Professor Emerita, The Open University, UK
  
'This Handbook is a rich and impressive resource, ranging across continents and societies, and opening up fresh issues as well as surveying the field. The authors take us far beyond conventional ideas about sex differences, to explore the gender relations that affect disease, injury and well-being. New perspectives are opened on the gender regimes in health care organizations and health professions. This is a major asset for all concerned with medical interventions, health care and public policy.' - Raewyn Connell, author of Gender: In World Perspective and Masculinities

Kuhlmann and Annandale s outstanding edited collection brings together foremost international experts on gender and healthcare, providing definitive analyses of how gender links to a range of contemporary challenges facing healthcare. Researchers, students and policy makers will find this collection an essential resource. - Professor Sara Arber,
Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender (CRAG), University of Surrey, UK
 
'In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare, leading scholars from around the world provide essential guidance and direction for steering gender into the mainstream of healthcare. It s an indispensable guidebook for health practitioners, managers, policy-makers and researchers alike.' - Will Courtenay


  --Will Courtenay

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This authoritative, state-of-the-art reference collection addresses the main issues and core debates related to gender and healthcare in one accessible volume. Mapping the field, and drawing together cutting-edge research on gender and healthcare, this essential guide to an area of increasing interest provides a critical overview of debates as well as practical guidance on how to bring gender perspectives to the heart of international health policy, practice and research.

Providing an integrated and context-sensitive approach that focuses on men s and women s health, actor-centred and institutional approaches to healthcare, as well as to the needs of service users and professionals, this comprehensive and innovative overview examines both the developed and developing world, and explores intersections between gender and a wide range of social inequalities.

Divided into five parts this panoramic survey covers
The gendering of healthcare and policy
The social patterning of health by gender
Equity and access to healthcare
The organization and delivery of healthcare
Health professions and gender

Offering an impressive range of international world class expertise and insight, each chapter includes a chapter summary and an overview of key reading, making this Handbook an invaluable companion for a wide range of academics, researchers, practitioners and policymakers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1349311359
• ISBN 13: 9781349311354
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 508