The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare (PDF)

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LING-FANG CHENG is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Gender Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
RAYMOND DE VRIES is Professor in the Bioethics Program and the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School, USA
EUGENE DECLERCQ is Professor of Community Health Sciences and Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education at the Boston University School of Public Health and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Boston University School of Medicine, USA
LESLEY DOYAL is Emeritus Professor in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK, and Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
JANE EDWARDS is undertaking research on the impact of work-life issues on sustainable lifestyles at the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia
ELIZABETH ETTORE is Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK
ANNE E. FIGERT is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago, USA
PAUL GALDAS is Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada
CLAUDIA GARCIA-MORENO is a physician from Mexico with a Masters in Community Medicine from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
LEAH GILBERT is Professor of Health Sociology in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
KATE HUNT is Honorary Professor in the Division of Community-based Sciences at Glasgow University, UK and Professorial Fellow at Stirling University, UK
CAROL KINGDON is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Health, University of Central Lancashire, UK
INEKE KLINGE is Associate Professor of Gender/Diversity Medicine at School Caphri, Maastricht University, Netherlands
PETRA KOLIP is Professor of Prevention and Health Promotion at Bielefeld University, Germany
TOINE LAGRO-JANSSEN is Principal Lecturer and Head of the Unit Women's Health, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, at St Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
MARTHA E. LANG is Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology/Anthropology and Coordinator of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resources at Guilford College, USA
CHRISTA LARSEN Managing Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
VIVIAN LIN is Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia
HELEN L'ORANGE is an Honorary Associate, School of Public Health, La Trobe University Australia
TULSI PATEL is Professor of Sociology and teaches at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India
SARAH PAYNE is Reader in the School for Policy Studies, Bristol University, UK
PATRICIA P. RIEKER is Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Boston University and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA
ELIANNE RISKA is Professor of Sociology at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
KAKOLI ROY is a Senior Economist at the Centers for Disease Control of Prevention (CDC), United States Department of Health and Human Services
JANE SANDALL is Professor of Social Sciences and Women's Health in the Department of Public Health, King's College, London, UK
TONI SCHOFIELD is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia
TERRY-ANN SELIKOW is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
HILARY STANDING is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
REBECCA SUTHERNS specializes in researching and creating sustainable, accessible models of healthcare for marginalized populations
HILDEGARD THEOBALD is Professor at the Research Centre on Ageing and Society, Vechta University, Germany
EDWIN VAN TEIJLINGEN is Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Health at Bournemouth University, UK
PETER WATTS Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
SIRPA WREDE is Research Coordinator at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN), Swedish School of Social Science, and Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland

scholars from around the world provide essential guidance and direction for steering gender into the mainstream of healthcare. It's an indispensable guidebook for health practitioners, managers, policy-makers and researchers alike.' - Dr Will Courtenay, Men's Health Consulting, Berkeley, California, USA

'The varied approaches and theoretical understandings described in the volume, constitute a very essential and helpful resource to those interested in bringing gender sensitivity into health care, and in particular to health-care professionals, researchers and policy makers.' - Berit Rostad, Faculty of Medicine, Trondheim, Norway

'This 'tour de force' of a handbook brings together the work of 48 authors in 26 chapters, clustered into 5 parts, topped and tailed by an easy to read and informative introduction and conclusion. Each chapter finishes with a useful bullet point summary and suggested further reading. Together the chapters blend theory and health care practices and bring alive the importance of embedding gender analysis and responses within different national and local contexts...In summary the handbook is informative, interesting and timely it comes highly recommended.' - Perspectives in Public Health

'...a very essential and helpful resource to those interested in bringing gender sensitivity into health care...adequately presented...Thebook is a 'must-have'; an equally indispensable handbook to health and social scientists, health professionals and policy makers.' - European Journal of Public Health

'By highlighting several cases of injustice and either providing us with country specific recommendations or an analysis of previous actions taken, this handbook is clearly intended to motivate political action.' - Science as Culture