Title: Prescribed norms
Description: "By comparing ritual practices of various cultures, Prescribed Norms demonstrates how looking at women's health through a masculine lens has distorted current medical understandings of menstruation, menopause, and childbirth, and has often led to faulty medical conclusions. Warsh also illuminates how the shift from informal to more formal, institutionalized treatment impacts both women's health care and women's roles as health practitioners"--Pub. info.
Subjects: Health and hygiene, Women's health services, Histoire, Santé et hygiène, Women, Soins médicaux, Femmes, History, Women, health and hygiene, Women, canada, Women, united states, history, Women's Health, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century
Places: Canada, United States, États-Unis