Women's Health
From Womb to Tomb
Penny Kane(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 4. February 1991
Book
Hardback
229 pages
978-0-333-52287-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first sections of this book look at women's health in a general perspective, concentrating primarily on the countries of Europe but using developing world countries to show how similar they may be or what changes have taken place in our Western achievement of a greater lenght of life. The second part concentrates in much more detail on examining differences between women and men at different ages or stages of life. Penny Karen also wrote "The Which? Guide to Birth Control" and "The Second Billion: People and Population in China".
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-52287-5 (9780333522875)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Trends in Women's Health - Explanations for Women's Advantage - Women and Illness - Social and Economic Health Differences - Female Health in Childhood - Female Health in Early Adulthood - Health in the Middle and Later Years - Reflections on Women's Health - References - Index