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Gender and health : the effects of constrained choices and social policies / Chloe E. Bird y Patricia P. Rieker

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Estados Unidos : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: xv, 256 páginas : gráficas, diagramas ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 978-0-521-68280-0 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RB212 .B5 2008
Summary: "There is a growing body of international research on gender and health research, but much of it concerns either women or men, and focuses on either social or biological factors in explanation. By overcoming these limitations, Chloe Bird and Patricia Rieker's 'constrained choice' approach is an excellent and timely framework for the analysis of the complex relationship between gender and health. Clearly written and supported by a wealth of research evidence, the book will be of great interest to both researchers and policy makers." —Ellen Annandale, University of Leicester ǀ "What a valuable book! Bird and Rieker, two of the nation's premier thinkers on health policy, have sifted through the mountains of research on gender and health, and separated the stereotypic from the statistically relevant. As America finally confronts its health care crisis, this will be the primer for policymakers, and a significant contribution to the national conversation." —Michael Kimmel, SUNY Stony Brook ǀ "Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies is an engaging, timely, and useful book about men's and women's health. In it, Bird and Rieker summarize the issues, their histories and relevant findings. They critique differing views and offer a synthesis useful to researchers, clinicians, policy makers and individuals making decisions about their own lives. Gender and Health avoids the polemical style of feminism and the aseptic style of medicine. It treats gender and health as a flesh-and-blood issue of real people in a real world defined by physical environments, social roles and strata, culture, and history, all interacting with human biology." —John Mirowsky, University of Texas at Austin ǀ "Bird and Rieker have provided an important and timely contribution to understanding the differences in the health of men and women. The authors have synthesized a complex body of interdisciplinary evidence and provided a novel framework of 'constrained choice' to explain how gender is related to health. Their writing is accessible both to seasoned researchers and to general readers." —Carol Weisman, Pennsylvania State University
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"There is a growing body of international research on gender and health research, but much of it concerns either women or men, and focuses on either social or biological factors in explanation. By overcoming these limitations, Chloe Bird and Patricia Rieker's 'constrained choice' approach is an excellent and timely framework for the analysis of the complex relationship between gender and health. Clearly written and supported by a wealth of research evidence, the book will be of great interest to both researchers and policy makers." —Ellen Annandale, University of Leicester ǀ

"What a valuable book! Bird and Rieker, two of the nation's premier thinkers on health policy, have sifted through the mountains of research on gender and health, and separated the stereotypic from the statistically relevant. As America finally confronts its health care crisis, this will be the primer for policymakers, and a significant contribution to the national conversation." —Michael Kimmel, SUNY Stony Brook ǀ


"Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choices and Social Policies is an engaging, timely, and useful book about men's and women's health. In it, Bird and Rieker summarize the issues, their histories and relevant findings. They critique differing views and offer a synthesis useful to researchers, clinicians, policy makers and individuals making decisions about their own lives. Gender and Health avoids the polemical style of feminism and the aseptic style of medicine. It treats gender and health as a flesh-and-blood issue of real people in a real world defined by physical environments, social roles and strata, culture, and history, all interacting with human biology." —John Mirowsky, University of Texas at Austin ǀ

"Bird and Rieker have provided an important and timely contribution to understanding the differences in the health of men and women. The authors have synthesized a complex body of interdisciplinary evidence and provided a novel framework of 'constrained choice' to explain how gender is related to health. Their writing is accessible both to seasoned researchers and to general readers." —Carol Weisman, Pennsylvania State University

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