Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solvi

This collection of essays addresses the broadening array of issues on the agenda of the women's health movements of the 1980s and 1990s, just as a previous coll

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, Women and Health explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and

Russia's maternal health crisis and postsocialist transition examined through ethnographic observation in clinics and hospitals.