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Title Gender, health, and illness : the case of nerves / edited by Dona L. Davis and Setha M. Low
Published New York : Hemisphere, [1989]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 226 pages)
Series A Health care for women international publication
Health care for women international publication.
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 -- 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 First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Notes Also published as an issue of Health care for women international
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Anxiety -- Sex factors
Depression, Mental -- Sex factors
Anxiety -- Cross-cultural studies
Depression, Mental -- Cross-cultural studies
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Manners and customs.
Culture.
Sex factors in disease.
Anxiety Disorders -- ethnology
Cultural Characteristics
Culture
Depression -- ethnology
Sex Factors
Women -- psychology
Ethnopsychology
culture note.
customs (social concepts)
culture (concept)
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Sex factors in disease
Manners and customs
Culture
Anxiety
Anxiety -- Sex factors
Depression, Mental
Depression, Mental -- Sex factors
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Psychische Gesundheit
Milieu
Aufsatzsammlung
Transkulturelle Psychiatrie
Fallstudiensammlung
Nervosität
Frau
Angst.
Depressies (psychiatrie)
Sekseverschillen.
Culturele verschillen.
Anxiété -- Facteurs sexuels.
Anxiété -- Études transculturelles.
Dépression nerveuse -- Facteurs sexuels.
Dépression nerveuse -- Études transculturelles.
Ethnopsychiatrie -- Amérique latine.
Ethnopsychiatrie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Irlande du Nord.
Ethnopsychiatrie -- États-Unis.
Industriestaaten
Lateinamerika
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Davis, Dona Lee, 1948-
Low, Setha M
ISBN 9781317770480
131777048X