Virtuous and Wise: Apprehending Female Medical Practice from Hebrew Texts on Women’s Healthcare

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-711
Author(s):  
Carmen Caballero-Navas
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Therapeutic Procedures ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

Summary In this article, I analyse the attribution of remedies and therapeutic procedures to women, anonymous in the main, embedded in a number of texts belonging to the medieval Hebrew corpus of literature on women’s healthcare. By suggesting a classification of the ways in which both women and their healing activities are referred to, I intend to offer a framework that helps to identify Jewish (and non-Jewish) women’s health agency from medical texts. In addition to textual analysis, I compare some of the mentions with evidences found in a variety of historical and literary sources for the sake of helping to contextualise them.

Shaping the conversation of women's health and reproductive rights: a textual analysis of Planned Parenthoods external communications and news coverage of womens health during the 2016 presidential election

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Madalyne Bird
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Planned Parenthood ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
External Communications

Planned Parenthood provides more than 2.5 million men and women every year with access to affordable health care. However, Planned Parenthood has become a central figure in the contentious political debate about a woman's right to choose versus the right to life. Using agenda setting theory as a theoretical framework and textual analysis as the methodology, this study examined how a nonprofit (Planned Parenthood) sets the agenda for news outlets through its use of external communications or public relations, focusing on the output of information in the form of press releases and Facebook posts by Planned Parenthood and whether or not those communication outputs are then input into news articles covering the 2016 presidential election and the political discussion of women's health. Results revealed that Planned Parenthood had minimal impact on news coverage of women's health in the context of the 2016 presidential election.

scholarly journals Interobserver Agreement in the Classification of Stroke in the Women’s Health Study

Stroke ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Atiya ◽  
Tobias Kurth ◽  
Klaus Berger ◽  
Julie E. Buring ◽  
Carlos S. Kase
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Interobserver Agreement ◽  
Health Study

The Legacy of the Trotula

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Dietary Advice ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Over Time

The Trotula went on to influence many medical texts which addressed women’s health. Other texts which address diet and health, as well as gynaecology, are examined to trace how the recommendations found the Trotula changed over time. In addition, texts in the vernacular became more common, such as Platina’s On Right Pleasure and Good Health, the Tacuina sanitatis, or The Sykenesse of Wymmen. Cookbooks also became more common and can indicate some recipes used to treat the ill or infirm. Examination of these texts focuses on dietary advice for women.

scholarly journals Agreement of Self-Reported Migraine With ICHD-II Criteria in the Women's Health Study

Cephalalgia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 1086-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Schürks ◽  
JE Buring ◽  
T Kurth
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Headache Disorder ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Population Based ◽  
International Classification ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Headache Disorders

Migraine is a common headache disorder that is increasingly being evaluated in population-based studies. The American Migraine Study II and the Women's Health Study (WHS) have successfully used ‘modified’ International Classification of Headache Disorders, 1st edition (ICHD-I) criteria to classify patients. Investigating agreement of self-reported migraine in large epidemiological studies with the criteria of the revised version [International Classification of Headache Disorders, 2nd edition (ICHD-II)] is sparse. We have investigated 1675 women with self-reported migraine participating in the WHS, who provided additional information on a detailed migraine questionnaire that allowed us to apply all ICHD-II criteria. In this sub-cohort, we confirmed self-reported migraine in > 87% of women when applying the ICHD-II criteria for migraine (71.5%) and probable migraine without aura (16.2%). In conclusion, there is excellent agreement between self-reported migraine and ICHD-II-based migraine classification in the WHS. In addition, questionnaire-based migraine assessment according to full ICHD-II criteria in large population-based studies is feasible.

scholarly journals A textual analysis of media framing of mass shootings: how characteristics surrounding mass shootings are framed in men's and women's magazines

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Haley M. Pitto
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
The Core ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
Magazine Articles

The present research attempted to build upon mass shooting studies by analyzing how feature-length magazine articles focusing on these events frame the characteristics surrounding mass shootings in men's and women's health and lifestyle magazines. The researcher conducted a qualitative textual analysis of 24 randomly selected feature-length mass shootings articles in print and online issues of Esquire, Cosmopolitan, GQ and Glamour between January 2012-April 2017. The core findings of this research included how mass shootings almost always 12 under one of four frames: individual (internal) blame frames, societal (external) blame frames, profiling the shooter, and recovery and mourning. These articles also presented more complex sub-frames. The sub-frames included: symptoms suffered by the shooter, drugs, medication and counseling, identity, and stereotypes, political and institutional failures, access to firearms, military issues, "never saw it coming," slipping through the cracks, and the victims and survivors of mass shootings as well as community togetherness.

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