Download or read book Women's Health in Mainland Southeast Asia written by Andrea Whittaker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of women of Southeast Asia show how social, cultural, and economic forces, such as war, military regimes, industrialization, urbanization, and social upheaval, affect the choices they make about their health and health care. Cases shed light on women's beliefs about their bodies and how they evaluate abnormal symptoms, and on measures they take for self-care. This work is co-published simultaneously as Women & Health, v.35, no.4, 2002. Whittaker is affiliated with the Key Center for Women's Health in Society, Australia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR