Lesbian Health : What Are The Issues?

ISBN-13: 9781560322993 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 164 str.

Phyllis N. Stern;Phyllis N. Stern

Opis

A series of scientific investigations into problems lesbians face when seeking health care. The text addresses such questions as: should lesbians disclose their sexual orientation?; can it be kept off the record?; and where can lesbians go if they feel unable to trust traditional medicine?

Spis treści

Lesbian health care research - a review of the literature from 1970 to 1990; ecological transition - using Bronfenbrenner's model to study sexual identity change; lesbian stereotypes; reasons American lesbians fail to seek traditional health care; lesbians as an invisible minority in the health service arena; health life styles of lesbians' images of recovery from alcohol problems; how do lesbian women develop serenity; lesbian childbearing couples' dilemmas and decisions; an investigation of the health care preferences of the lesbian population; the lesbian custody project.

O autorze

Phyllis Noerager Stern