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About the Contributors.. Introduction: Gender, Medicine, and Health.. PART I. The Language of Science and Medicine.. The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.. Unnatural Births: Cesarean Sections in the Discourse of the "Natural Childbirth" Movement.. PART II. Gender Health and the Life Cycle.. The Cultural Constructions of the Premenstrual and Menopause Syndromes.. Gender, Aging and Health: A Comparative Approach.. PART III. Technology, Gender, and Health.. The Technocratic Body and the Organic Body: Hegemony and Heresy in Women's Birth Choices.. Women and the Debate over Mammography: An Economic, Political and Moral History.. PART IV. Gender, Medical Ethics, and Personhood.. Cancer and Women: Some Feminist Ethics Concerns.. Boundary Crossings: Gender, and Power in Clinical Ethics Consultations.. A Handmaid's Tale: The Rhetoric of Personhood in American and Japanese Healing of Abortions.. PART V. Gender, Healing and the Social Production of Health.. Political Economy, Gender, and the Social Production of Health and Illness.. Women, Work, and Household Health in the Context of Development.. The Impress of Extremity: Women's Experience of Trauma and Political Violence.. PART VI. Gender and Health Policy.. Women and Health Policy: On the Inclusion of Females in Clinical Trials.. Risk, Prevention and International Health Policy.. Gender Relations, Sexuality and AIDS Risk Among African- American and Latina Women

This text responds to a growing interest in the relationship between gender, health care organization and health policy. In examining this relationship, it demonstrates how biology, medicine, health and ethical dilemmas are influenced by culture and shaped by social, political and economic forces. Inglés