Cayleff, Susan E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 26 (1988) 12, pp. 1199-1208
The medical conceptualization, diagnosis and treatment of nervous disorders has been greatly affected by gender … ideologies. A survey of recent scholarship reveals that gender ideologies still largely inform the illness-labeling, medical … nervousness to neurosis, but several key features remain static. The overriding common features of these ailments are the gender …