This collection examines enduring and topical questions in sexual and reproductive health in a range of contemporary Asian cultures. Beliefs and practices surrounding ...

Examine the importance of gender in health care training facilities and medicine! Teaching Gender, Teaching Women's Health presents case studies from Sweden, South Africa ...

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the PacificLenore Manderson, Margaret Jolly. Ch. 1: Educating Desire in Colonial ...

This 1996 book is a history of health and disease in Malaya from colonisation to World War II.

In recent years, first feminist considerations, and now concerns with HIV/Aids have led to new approaches to the study of sexuality. The experience of puberty, explorations ...

International health planners often design programmes based on the assumption that recipient nations share the same level playing field with regard to conceptions of health ...

Australian Women's Health: Innovations in Social Science and Community Research contains a compilation of studies that investigates the status of women's physical and mental ...

This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.