Gender, health, and illness
Subtitle: the case of nerves
By: edited by Dona L. Davis and Setha M. Low.
Contributors: Davis, Dona Lee, 1948-; Low, Setha M.
Series: A Health care for women international publication
Publisher: Hemisphere; Taylor & Francis
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Anxiety -- Sex factors.; Depression, Mental -- Sex factors.; Anxiety -- Cross-cultural studies.; Depression, Mental -- Cross-cultural studies.; Psychiatry, Transcultural.; Anxiety Disorders -- ethnology.; Culture.; Depression -- ethnology.; Identification (Psychology).
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Also published as an issue of Health care for women international.