Understanding women's sleep management: Beyond medicalization- healthicization?

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 815-837

  Hislop, Jenny ^a   Arber, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Healthicization; Medicalization; Personalization; Social context; Women's sleep management

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; TRANQUILIZER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LIFESTYLE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEMAZEPAM;

EID: 0346849859     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-9566.2003.00371.x     Document Type: Review

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