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The most positive approaches to women's health frequently emerge from women's own endeavours to achieve physical and mental balance in their lives. Abandoning the artificiality of subject divides, this book engages with that ethos. Drawing on the experience of an interdisciplinary women's health initiative, Gwyneth Boswel and Fiona Poland l have assembled a formidable range of academic and professional experts in this highly accessible collection. Concepts of health are explored across disciplines which include psychology, law, history, health economics, nursing, counselling, social work and sociology.
About the author
SARA ARBER Professor and Head of Sociology, University of Surrey
JOAN BUSFIELD Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
HELEN COOPER Senior Methodologist, Office for National Statistics
ROSIE DOY Lecturer, Primary Care and Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of East Anglia
ANNE GRIEG Educational Psychologist, Argyll and Bute Psychological Services Council
DAWN GREGORY Service and Development Manager (Child Mental Health), Norfolk Social Services Department
VICTORIA HARRIS Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of East Anglia
BARBARA HEWSON Barrister, Littman Chambers, 12 Gray's Inn Square
JAN KEENE Professor of Primary Care, Department of Health and Social Care, University of Reading
CATHERINE LOCKE Lecturer in Development Studies, School o Development Studies, University of East Anglia
ALISON MACFARLANE Professor of Perinatal Health, Department of Midwifery, St. Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery, City University
JUDY MOORE Director of Counselling, University of East Anglia
MIRANDA MUGFORD Professor of Health Economics, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia
CHRISTINE NIGHTINGALE Development Officer, University of Leicester
GILLIAN OAKER Clinical Psychologist, Norfolk Mental Health Care Trust
ROBERTA SASSATELLI Lecturer in Sociology, School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia
WENDY SAVAGE Honorary Professor, Middlesex University, Department of Social Service, Medical School of St. Batholomew's and Royal London Queen Mary, University of London
Summary
The most positive approaches to women's health frequently emerge from women's own endeavours to achieve physical and mental balance in their lives. Abandoning the artificiality of subject divides, this book engages with that ethos. Drawing on the experience of an interdisciplinary women's health initiative, Gwyneth Boswel and Fiona Poland l have assembled a formidable range of academic and professional experts in this highly accessible collection. Concepts of health are explored across disciplines which include psychology, law, history, health economics, nursing, counselling, social work and sociology.
