Publisher's Synopsis
This book is composed of a series of self-contained pieces that cover topics such as gender and disease, including the sexual differences in suseptibility to diseases and sex-linked genetic disorders. A piece on the institutional attitudes to female patients, pieces on the dangers of sexual activity, medical attitudes to the womb, breast cancer and how women deal with their fertility when they don't want to become pregnant and how they are treated by the medical profession when they do have children are all issues which are covered.
