1st Edition

Health Psychology of Women

By Catherine Niven, Doug Carroll Copyright 1993
214 Pages
by Psychology Press

214 Pages
by Psychology Press

First Published in 1993. Since health psychology is concerned with the universal values of life and death, well­being and suffering, it might be expected that its researchers would be keen to examine both male and female experiences of these phenomena. In practice, however, health psychology has followed health research in adopting a largely male perspective, both in its general approach and... Read more
Gender, health and stress, Douglas Carroll and Catherine A. Niven; women, mood and the menstrual cycle, Cynthia Graham and John Bancroft; reproductive issues - decisions and distress, Marie Johnston; women and the experience of pain, Karel Gijsbers and Catherine A. Niven; cardiovascular health and disease in women, Kathleen A. Light and Susan S. Girdler; cancer, Barbara L. Anderson; women and HIV/AIDS - challenging a growing threat, Michele Goldschmidt, et al; women, food and body image, Vivien J. Lewis and Alan J. Blair; women and depression, Raymond Cochrane; medical screening for women, Gillian McIIwaine; contraception, Elizabeth Alder; gender, social circumstances and health, Douglas Carroll, et al.

Biography

Catherine Niven, Doug Carroll