This article is the third of a special issue of Healthsharing on the topic of women and therapy by The Feminist Therapy Study/Support Group. Explains the roots and practice of feminist therapy.
This article is about the sexuality of women who have sex with men. Discusses The beginnings of gynecological thought and practice; A call to move from the symptoms-analysis-cure approach to a holistic approach. Encourages women to be their own experts; To think critically about their sexuality and how they feel about their bodies.
Aletta’s mission is to share knowledge and information about women’s history and women’s position in society as widely as possible and to encourage and promote further research about women and women’s history. There are books, magazines, archives, works of music, photographs, posters, diaries, letters, all sorts of household and personal objects… and so much more about women and women’s lives. Aletta’s collection includes an extensive range of resources and materials. If we do not have what you are looking for, we can help you find it.
This article looks at the international context for health reform in Canada. The author explores how Canada has developed some unique reform strategies and adapted others to suit our particular circumstances. She argues that this is particularly the case in the areas of health promotion and gender-based analysis. But foreign influences and external pressures have seldom been absent, although the extent and nature of these have changed significantly over the years.
Presents a photographic tribute to the dedicated professionals who represent women in many disciplines, including physicians and surgeons, midwives, nurses, technicians, therapists, physicians' assistants and researchers.
Includes bibliographical references and index. --- Review, Network Fall 2005: Many of us may believe that the history of women in medicine is a recent one, dating back perhaps a few hundred years. In actuality, the first known female physicians were in Egypt as early as 1300 BCE. It would take more than three thousand years, however, before Canada would see its first female physician, Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, and about another 150 years before women would make up the majority of the workers in the health care system. Grant and Carter’s book is a celebration of these women. Through photographs we see images of women in all fields of medicine, illustrating the distance they have come and the progress they have made. The images reveal not only female physicians and surgeons, but also nurses, technologists, therapists, physicians’ assistants, researchers and volunteers, each of whom is vital and integral to a successful and well-rounded health care system.
Examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990. Looks at politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology.
Includes bibliographical references and index. --- Review, October 2004: Considered a foundational text in cultural studies since 1981, this book has recently been translated from French into English much to the delight of those eagerly awaiting its arrival. Through the analysis of infamous photographs taken by Charcot at the Salpetriere hospital for insane and incurable women during the late nineteenth century, Didi-Huberman draws parallels between the then newly emerging fields of psychology and psychoanalysis and the "hysterical" women in Charcot's photographs. Through historical exploration and the analysis of photographs, Didi-Huberman illustrates how the concept of hysteria was created out of the visual representations created by Charcot. He discovers that these photos are not objective representations, but were achieved through patient coercion. Patients were forced to perform their hysteria on command and these performances have come to represent what psychology thinks of as hysterical. This work has significant resonances in the field of women's health today, both in the construction of mental illness in women and in women's over representation in mental illness. This complex and compelling read points to the impact that historical ideas of medicine and illness still have on contemporary medicine.
