Treating Lesbians and Bisexual Women: Challenges and Strategies for Health Professionals
Treating Lesbians and Bisexual Women provides an integrated critical analysis of lesbian and bisexual women's health issues. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, this book applies multidisciplinary research along with personal interviews and cases to answer questions that many lesbian and bisexual women ask: What have we learned about our health? What are our health risks? How can we best protect ourselves? Can we trust medical confidentiality? And how can we progress with better...
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Written in a scholarly but accessible style, this book provides an integrated critical analysis of lesbian and bisexual women's health. The book highlights trends and themes, with selected examples of research and personal experience of lesbians and bisexual women and their health care providers. Booknews In her current project concerning the health effects of sexual orientation on female members of a large HMO, Gruskin (Health Policy Institute, U. of California, San Francisco; Kaiser Permanente) aims to sensitize health care providers to the special needs of this population at particular risk for hate, domestic, and self-directed violence; stress, mental health, and substance abuse problems; and possibly, cancer. With case vignettes, she illustrates barriers to seeking and obtaining quality health care, and related legal and parenting issues. Appends an annotated bibliography, resources, suggestions for completing forms/interviewing, and methodological considerations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Special Population With Special Needs1A Population at Risk12Communication73Homophobia and Heterosexism274Identity515Disclosure676Multiple Influences, Accessibility, and Isolation757Sexual Health and Domestic Violence858Legal Issues1059Parenting127Conclusion135App. A: Annotated Bibliography137App. B: Organizations, Hotlines, and Resources157App. C: Methodological Considerations163App. D: Forms and Interviewing167References173Author Index179Subject Index183About the Author191
\ BooknewsIn her current project concerning the health effects of sexual orientation on female members of a large HMO, Gruskin (Health Policy Institute, U. of California, San Francisco; Kaiser Permanente) aims to sensitize health care providers to the special needs of this population at particular risk for hate, domestic, and self-directed violence; stress, mental health, and substance abuse problems; and possibly, cancer. With case vignettes, she illustrates barriers to seeking and obtaining quality health care, and related legal and parenting issues. Appends an annotated bibliography, resources, suggestions for completing forms/interviewing, and methodological considerations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
