Gender, Health And Illness: The Case Of Nerves

by Dona L. Davis (Editor), Setha M. Low (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780891169031
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/1989
Series:	Health Care for Women International Publication Series
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dona L. Davis Department of Social Behavior, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 George Beard and Lydia Pinkham, Dona L. Davis; Latin America; Chapter 2 Gender, Emotion, and Nervios in Urban Guatemala, Setha M. Low; Chapter 3 The Burden of Responsibility, Ruthbeth Finerman; Chapter 4 Notes on Nervios, Elyse Ann Barnett; Chapter 5 The Universality of Nerves, Kaja Finkler; Mediterranean and Northern Europe; Chapter 6 Nerves and Psychosomatic Illness, Laurie Krieger; Chapter 7 Nevra in a Greek Village, Mari H. Clark; Chapter 8 Living on their Nerves, Jeffrey A. Sluka; The United States; Chapter 9 Experience of Nervousness and Anxiety Disorders in Puerto Rican Women, Joan D. Koss-Chioino; Chapter 10 Nervios and Dysphoria in Mexican American Widows, Margarita Kay, Carmen Portillo; Chapter 11 Nerves, Worriation, and Black Women, Linda A. Camino;