The Politics of women's health: exploring agency and autonomy

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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Susan Sherwin with Voices from the Network 2. A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health-Care Susan Sherwin 3. Situating Women in the Politics of Health Margaret Lock 4. The Politics of Health: Geneticization vs. Health Promotion Abby Lippman 5. Contested Bodies, Contested Knowledges: Women, Health, and the Politics of Medicalization Kathryn Pauly Morgan 6. Agency, Diversity, and Constraints: Women and Their Physicians, Canada 1850-1959 Wendy Mitchinson 7. Reflections on the Transfer of Progress: The Case of Reproduction Maria De Koninck 8. Anomalous Women and Political Strategies for Aging Societies Margaret Lock 9. (Re)fashioning Medicine's Response to Wife Abuse Marilynne Bell and Janet Mosher 10. Reframing Research Involving Humans Francoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, and Susan Sherwin References About the Authors Index