Well Women : The Gendered Nature of Health Care Provision (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; All in the mind - feminism and health care, Susan M. Nott and Anne Morris; Disabling sex: some legal thinking about sterilization, learning disability and embodiment, Kirsty Keywood; Infertility treatment and the HIV positive women: old moral prejudices disguised as new ethical dilemmas, Kylie Stephen; Psychologizing abortion: women’s ’mental health’ and the regulation of abortion in Britain, Ellie Lee; European assisted conception regulation, the centrality of the embryo, Melanie Latham; The angel in the house: altruism, competance and the pregnant woman, Anne Morris; Care, control or coercion? women in the mental health system in Ireland, England and Wales, Faye Boland and Judith M. Laing; Body beautiful? feminist perspectives on the World Health Organization, Susan M. Nott; Index.