Gateways to Improving Lesbian Health and Health Care: Opening Doors
Christy M Ponticelli, "Gateways to Improving Lesbian Health and Health Care: Opening Doors"
English | ISBN: 1560231033 | | 126 pages | EPUB | 720 KB
English | ISBN: 1560231033 | | 126 pages | EPUB | 720 KB
An interdisciplinary book that creates a space for traditionally oppressed voices to speak, Gateways to Improving Lesbian Health and Health Care explores the health care experiences of lesbians of different ages, colors, and places. By presenting the particular difficulties lesbians have in accessing excellent, or even adequate, health care, this book is meant to convince lesbians who have been isolated that their health issues and interactions with health care professionals are not just personal troubles, but larger public issues. It is also designed to show health care providers how they can sensitize their care and meet the needs of lesbian clients through the provision of safe and respectful environments.
As Gateways to Improving Lesbian Health and Health Care addresses the intersection of race, class, and sexuality and how it affects the health care lesbians receive, you learn about lesbians’strategies for coming out to professionals, patient-professional interaction, and the construction of lesbianism as a social problem within the health care arena. You will also learn about:
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