Women’s Minds, Women’s Bodies

Introduction: Exploring Women's Health: Differences. Discourses and Disciplines; F.Poland & G.Boswell PART 1: A PICTURE OF HEALTH: WOMEN'S HEALTH IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Images of Women's Health and Healing: Cultural Perscriptions?; V.Harris Disordered Minds: Women, Men and Unreason in Thought, Emotion and Behaviour; J.Busfield PART 2: BREAKING AND BUILDING BODIES Women and Deliberate Self-Harm; R.Doy Women, Drugs and Alcohol; J.Keene Beyond Health and Beauty: A Critical Perspective on Fitness Culture; R.Sassatelli Listening Within: Counselling Women in Awareness of the Body; J.Moore PART 3: GIVING WOMEN A VOICE: THE POWER OF HEALTH DIALOGUES Professional Control or Women's Choice in Childbirth? Is Either Possible?; W.Savage Pregnant Women and Consent to Treatment: From Autonomy to State Control and Back Again; B.Hewson Long-Term Psychological Effects of Child Sexual Abuse; G.Oaker Maternal Depression and the Needs of the Child; A.Grieg & D.Gregory Can Women with Learning Disabilities Access Good Health Care? A Case Study of Cervical Screening; C.Nightingale PART 4: BUILDING HEALTH IN POLICY AND PRACTICE Health Policy and Provision for Maternity Care in the United Kingdom in the Twentieth Century; M.Mugford & A.Macfarlane Ethnicity and Inequalities in Older Women's Health; H.Cooper & S.Arber Discursive Challenges: Reproductive Rights and Women's Well-Being in Developing Countries; C.Locke