Psychological Perspectives On Women's Health / Edition 1

by Vincent J. Adesso

Overview

Significant scientific advances have been made in understanding psychological aspects of women's health, and knowledge gained will be of relevance not only to women's health but to the promotion of health and illness prevention and treatment for all individuals. The current cutting-edge research detailed in this volume is intended to stimulate new thinking and research in women's health from biopsychosocial perspectives. Drawing on research from internationally respected experts, topics covered include ageing, stress, heart disease, cancer, drugs, weight regulation and body image, pain, menstruation, sexuality and infertility, and AIDS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560323358
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/01/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	374
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: Psychological Perspectives on Women's Health:An Introduction and Overview; One: Gender, Health, and Aging; 2: Gender and Aging: Women and their Aging; Two: Stress, Coronary Heart Disease, and Cancer; 3: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Stress in Women and Men; 4: Coronary Risk in Women; 5: Cancer in Women; Three: Body Image and Weight Regulation and Drug Use; 6: Women and Drugs; 7: Body Image and the Regulation of Weight; Four: Menstruation and Pain; 8: Toward an Understanding of Women's Experience of Menstrual Cycle Symptoms; 9: Pain; Five: Sexuality and Infertility and AIDS; 10: Sexuality and Infertility; 11: Women's Health: TheImpact of the ExpandingAIDS Epidemic; Six: Directions for Research in Women's Health; 12: Psychology and Women's Health: Some Reflections and Future Directions