Medicine and the Family - A Feminist Perspective

By putting caring at the forefront, both caregivers and patients can begin to think about power in a new way, and to see the clinical relationship as healing and empowering, rather than unequal and combative.

List of contents

Infant and child development; women's adult development; the family cycle; violence against women, not family violence; incest and sexual abuse; the doctor-patient relationship as contract; power-in-relation.

Summary

This study of the effect on women and families of the organizing principles of health care shows the consequences of the assumption that women are solely responsible for family problems and demonstrates the medical superiority of a clinical relationship based on communication rather than control.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Candib, Lucy M. Candib, Lucy Michelle Candib
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.09.1999
• EAN: 9780465008254
• ISBN: 978-0-465-00825-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery