books.google.com.au - In this timely and perceptive volume, Judith Lorber considers the interface between gender as a social institution on the one hand, and western medicine as a social institution on the other. Focusing on belief that illnesses are considered to be physical, Judith Lorber brings a feminist viewpoint to...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Gender_and_the_Social_Construction_of_Il.html?hl=zh-TW&id=TODLEXOEgaEC&q=emotional&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGender and the Social Construction of Illness