| Chapter Guide Topic Guide | Personal Health | Disciplines
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| Chapter: Consumer Medical Issues | ||
| Add | 22 pp. | The Double Standard in Diagnosis and Treatment |
| Considers gender bias in diagnosis and treatment with a particular emphasis on the needs and social circumstances of women from marginalized populations such as African-American women and Latinas, lesbians, and poor women. Feminist critiques of traditional psychotherapy are stressed. | ||
| Add | 25 pp. | Sex-Related Differences in Psychological Disorders |
| Explores and compares medical and social models that explain differences between men and women in the incidence of depression, agoraphobia, and eating disorders (all more common to women than to men). Historical and contemporary evidence for the social construction of female disorders is presented. | ||