| Description |
xv, 226 pages ; 24 cm |
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A Health care for women international publication |
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Health care for women international publication.
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| Contents |
George Beard and Lydia Pinkham : gender, class, and nerves in late 19th century America / Dona L. Davis -- Gender, emotion, and nervios in urban Guatemala / Setha M. Low -- The burden of responsibility : duty, depression, and nervios in Andean Ecuador / Ruthbeth Finerman -- Notes on nervios : a disorder of menopause / Elyse Ann Barnett -- The universality of nerves / Kaja Finkler -- Nerves and psychosomatic illness : the case of Um Ramadan / Laurie Krieger -- Nevra in a Greek village : idiom, metaphor, symptom, or disorder? / Mari H. Clark -- Living on their nerves : nervous debility in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Experience of nervousness and anxiety disorders in Puerto Rican women : psychiatric and ethnopsychological perspectives / Joan D. Koss-Chioino |
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Nervios and dysphoria in Mexican American widows / Margarita Kay and Carmen Portillo -- Nerves, worriation, and Black women : a community study in the American South / Linda A. Camino |
| Summary |
This offers a varied perspective on the popular health/illness category of nerves. Relationships between gender and nerves are investigated in terms of biology and epidemiology, interpersonal and social relations, social construction of gender, affective and symbolic qualities of nerves |
| Analysis |
Man Neuroses: Anxiety |
| Notes |
Also published as an issue of Health care for women international |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Anxiety -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Anxiety -- Sex factors.
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Anxiety.
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Depression, Mental -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Depression, Mental -- Sex factors.
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Depression, Mental.
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Identification (Psychology)
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Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Anxiety Disorders -- ethnology.
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Cultural Characteristics.
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Culture.
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Depression -- ethnology.
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Identification (Psychology)
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Sex Factors.
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Women -- psychology.
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| Author |
Davis, Dona Lee, 1948-
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Low, Setha M.
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| LC no. |
89015353 |
| ISBN |
0891169032 |
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