| Description |
vi, 419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Women and culture series |
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Women and culture series.
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| Contents |
Health care technologies : political and ethical considerations : introduction / Glenda D. Price -- Health technologies for women : whose health? whose technology? / Kathryn Strother Ratcliff -- The role of technology in the co-optation of the women's health movement : the cases of osteoporosis and breast cancer screening / Mariamne H. Whatley and Nancy Worcester -- Ethical decision making in medical genetics : women as patients and practitioners in eighteen nations / Dorothy C. Wertz and John C. Fletcher -- The meaning of risk, choice, and responsibility for a DES daughter / Susan E. Bell -- Hospitals and hospices : feminist decisions about care for the dying / Alice Lind -- Occupational and environmental technologies : research and resources for change : introduction / Myra Marx Ferree |
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Introduction / Kathryn Strother Ratcliff -- Reproductive technologies : economic and social implications : introduction / Barbara Drygulski Wright -- From the pill to test-tube babies : new options, new pressures in reproductive behavior / Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- Electronic fetal monitors : marketing forces and the resulting controversy / Judith R. Kunisch -- Contraception, control, and choice : international perspectives / Kim Yanoshik and Judy Norsigian -- Reproductive technology : perspectives and implications for low-income women and women of color / Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson and Elaine J. Hall -- Technology in childbirth : effects on postpartum moods / Lynne C. Garner and Richard C. Tessler -- Should pregnancies be sustained in brain-dead women? : a philosophical discussion of postmortem pregnancy / Julien S. Murphy |
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Women's health and women's rights : reproductive health hazards in the workplace / Joan E. Bertin -- Workplace disability : gender, technology, and the experience of rheumatoid arthritis / Judith Fifield ... [et al.] -- Effects of solvent exposure and occupational stress on the health of blue-collar women / Mary Amanda Dew ... [et al.] -- Women's lives against the industrial-chemical landscape : environmentalhealth and the health of the environment / Lin Nelson -- Sustaining our organizations : feminist health activism in an age of technology / Gail O. Mellow |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Human reproductive technology -- Social aspects.
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Medical technology -- Social aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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| Author |
Ratcliff, Kathryn Strother, 1944-
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| LC no. |
89004900 |
| ISBN |
0472063952 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0472093959 (hard : alk. paper) |
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