Women, Health, and Healing

Ellen Lewis is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, USA. Virginia Olesen is Professor Emerita at the Center for Health and Community, University of California San Francisco, USA.

‘This book is a valuable collection of original articles that brings together developments in feminist scholarship in the field of women's health on both sides of the Atlantic.’ Barbara Harrison, Feminist Review, Nov 1986‘This book is a cross-cultural effort of authors from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. What is impressive, given the differences in the health care systems, is the similarity of the issues faced by women in all three countries.’ Lucy M. Candlib, Family Systems Medicine 4 (1)

• 1. Women, Health and Healing: A Theoretical Introduction Virginia Olesen and Ellen Lewin 2. Providers, Negotiators and Mediators: Women as the Hidden Carers Hilary Graham 3. Occupational Health and Women: The Case of Clerical Work Ellen Lewin and Virginia Olesen 4. The Frail Elderly Woman: Emergent questions in Aging and Women’s Health Helen Evers 5. Oestrogen-Replacement Therapy: The Production of Medical Knowledge and the Emergence of Policy Patricia A. Kaufert and Sonja M. McKinlay 6. Abortion in the 1980s: Feminist Morality and Women’s Health Rosalind Pollack Petchesky 7. Struggle Between Providers and Recipients: The Case of Birth Practices Shelly Romalis 8. Women and Sports: Reflections on Health and Policy Mary Boutilier and Lucinda SanGiovanni 9. Women and the National Health Service: The Carers and the Careless Lesley Doyal 10. Women and Health: The United States and the United Kingdom Compared Margaret Stacey.