| Description |
xxi, 556 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Global women's health and human rights / Allan Rosenfield, Caroline Min and Joshua Bardfield -- Violence against women and the girl-child : a silent global pandemic / Padmini Murthy, Ushma D. Upadhyay and Eleonar Nwadinobi -- Impact and effects of terrorism on women and the girl-child / Michael J. Reilly -- War, women, and girls / Mary-Wynne Ashford -- Women and children in war and complex emergencies : human rights, the humanitarian endeavor, and progress towards equality / Ellen C. O'Connell -- Human trafficking : a modern plague / Padmini Murthy, Roshni D. Persaud and Mitsuru Toda -- Shadows on the sunshine of women's global health and human rights : the global gag rule, Tuskegee and HIV Studies, tobacco marketing, torture, and forced sterilization / Clyde Lanford Smith -- Going negative : how reproductive rights discourse has been altered from a positive to a negative rights framework in support of "women's rights" / Reilly Anne Dempsey and Benjamin Mason Meier -- More than 100 Million women are missing / Amartya K. Sen -- Globalization, development, and health : a political-economic perspective on the global struggle for health / David Legge and Deborah Viola -- The AIDS pandemic and women's rights / Joia S. Mukherjee, Didi Bertrand Farmer and Paul E. Farmer -- Poor, black, and female : the growing face of AIDS in the United States / Heidi L. Behforouz and Jennifer Chung -- Cardiovascular disease in women : risk factors and risk reduction / Eliot A. Brinton, Paul N. Hopkins and Gopal Sankaran -- The global scourge of the 21st Century- diabetes- and worse for women / Dima Yeshou, Michelle R. Detwiler and Donald A. Smith -- Neurological disorders in women / Gayatri Devi -- Women's musculoskeletal health / Kimberley Templeton -- Sexual and reproductive health : women's health is society's wealth / Ushma D. Upadhyay, Padmini Murthy -- The impact of chronic kidney disease on the girl-child / Guillermo Hidalgo -- Breast cancer in women : a public health perspective / Anitha Srinivasan -- Cervical cancer mortality : a preventable tragedy / Padmini Murthy -- Maternal mortality : the eye of the storm / Anne Foster-Rosales -- Ensuring a woman's right to survive childbirth : preventing mortality from postpartum hemorrhage / Harshadkumar Sanghvi -- Infertility in developing countries : scope, psychosocial burden, and the need for action / Anke Hemmerling -- Vaccines and women : cultural and structural issues for acceptability / Hala Azzam -- Infectious diseases and women's human rights / Natasha Anandaraja -- Women and disability / Tom Fryers -- Women with disabilities in education : the United States and the Americans with Disabilities Act / Martin Patwell -- Blindness and social stigma in women and the girl-child / Jennifer Staple -- Older women's access to health and human rights / Monica Sanchez -- Palliative care and end-of-life issues / Liliana De Lima -- Breastfeeding : a biological, ecological, and human rights imperative for global health / Miriam Labbok, Erica Nakaji -- Gender equality is not just a women's issue, but a development and a human rights issue / Claudio Schuftan -- Water and sanitation / Cathey Eisner Falvo -- Society, exercise, and women / Amy Ansehl, Marly B. Katz, Padmini Murthy -- A woman's sexuality / Jean Fourcroy -- FGM : the clinician's perspective / Kwasi Odoi-Agyarko -- Practice and problems in occupational health for women / Robin C. Leonard -- Women's engagement : essential to building the culture of peace / Anwarul K. Chowdhury -- Women's health in a multicultural world : challenges and progress in Africa / Fred T. Sai -- Being a woman in rural India / Hema Viswanathan -- From Alma-Ata to millennium development goals : status of women's health in the 21st Century / Gopal Sankaran -- Promoting a human rights-based approach to women's health / Purnima Mane |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Women's rights.
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World health.
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Women's Health.
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Women's Rights.
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Global Health.
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| Author |
Murthy, Padmini.
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Smith, Clyde Lanford.
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| LC no. |
2008050177 |
| ISBN |
9780763756314 paperback |
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0763756318 paperback |
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