Women's Health and Mental Health Seminar 
Description Syllabus Assignments Discussion Group Additional Materials Related Links
Required Readings Suggested Readings Films Schedule
Required Readings:
  • Moss, K.L. (ed.) (1996). Man-Made Medicine, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press (Moss, in syllabus).
  • Rollins, J.H. (1996). Women’s Bodies, Women’s Minds: The Psychology of Women in a Biosocial Context, Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall  (Rollins, in syllabus).
  • Worcester, N. & Whatley, M. (eds.) (1994). Women’s Health: Readings on Social, Economic, and Political Issues, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt  (Reader, in syllabus).
  • Domar, A. & Dreher, H. (1997). Healing Mind, Healthy Woman, New York: Dell Pub. (Domar, in syllabus).
  • Other required  readings will be on reserve in the Science Library.   Back to top
Suggested Narratives/Novels (fiction/creative nonfiction):

1.  And the Band Played On
2.  A Civil Action
3.  G. Chorea’s book on Women and AIDs
4.  Girl Interrupted
5.  Listening to Prozac
6.  When Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up
7.  The Yellow Wallpaper
8.  The Lynchburg Story
9.  Women of the Asylum
10.  Living Downstream
11.  Inner Hunger
12.  Midwives
13.  Genie
14.  Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media
15.  Prozac Nation
16.  An Unquiet Mind
17.  Welcome to My Country (or Slater’s new book re: her experience with Prozac)
18.  Nola
19.  Others
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Films:
1.  Crucible, Fatal Attraction, Frances, etc. (on video)
2.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 2/1, 7:30 p.m., Stein 116
3.  Dialogues with Mad Women, 2/15, 7:30 p.m., Stein 116
4.  Means of Grace (borrow video from Prof. Wolfson)
5.  No More Tears, 3/2, 11:00 a.m., Abnormal Psych. Class
6.  Sleepers, 4/19, 7:30 p.m., Stein 116
7.  Other films, speakers, and suggested articles/books to be announced
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Schedule:
 
Date Topic Assignment
Mon.  1/25 Introduction Moss, intro., ch. 1
Rollins, ch. 1
Mon.  2/1 Overview of Women’s Health: Missing? Moss, ch. 2, 3, 4
Reader, ch. 1 
Rollins, ch. 9
Mon.  2/8 Biology, Medicine and Gender: (Special case: Drugs)

Class held at the Lifetime Center for Family Health, Fallon Health Care System, 630 Plantation St., Fallon Clinic Annex Bldg.  Keynote Speaker: Beth Foley, RN;  Meet  promptly at the Clinic, 3:15 p.m. 

 Rollins, ch. 2
Reader, ch. 5
Lorber, ch. 3 (reserve)
Rothman, Shiny Happy People (reserve)
Mon. 2/15 AIDs: Forgotten Victims (Possible guest Speaker from AID’s Project Worcester) Moss, ch. 6
Reader, ch. 11 (selections on HIV)
Rosser, ch. 2
Lorber, ch. 5, A Modern Plague: Gender and AIDs (reserve)
Mon. 2/22 What about Mental Health, Behavioral and Emotional Well-being? Rollins, ch. 8
Moss, ch. 9
Reader, ch. 4
Selected reading from Geller, J.L. & Harris, M. (1994). Women of the Asylum.

COLLECT JOURNALS TODAY
Paper Topics Due
Mon. 3/1 Common Cold of Mental Illness:  Women and Depression Stone, ch. 11, 12
O’Nell, C. & Selby, H., Sex Differences in the incidence of Susto in Zapotec Pueblos 
(on reserve under Abnormal Psych.)
Nolen-Hoeksema, ch. 5
Mon. 3/8 Spring Break!  
Mon. 3/15 The Mind-Body Relationship Domar book
Reader, ch. 11 (selected readings on endometriosis, chronic fatigue, etc.)
Mon. 3/22 Women and Obstetrics/Gynecology: Case of Breast Cancer Rollins, ch. 12
Reader, ch. 6, 9, appropriate selections from ch. 11
Rosser, ch. 4
Lerman & Schwartz et al., A Randomized Trial of Breast Cancer Risk Counseling…
Bolger, et al., Close Relationships and Adjustment to a Life Crisis: The Case of Breast
Cancer
Narrative/Novel/Creative Non-Fiction Essays Due
Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women’s Health Issues

On March 22, 1999 at 4:00 p.m. Dr. Joyce O’Shaughnessey will give the kick-off lecture for the new Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women’s Health Issues.  Katherine A. Henry ’86 died of Neurofibromatosis in February ’97.  Following her death, her parents established an endowment for this new lecture series in her memory. 
The first speaker, Dr. Joyce O’Shaughnessey, is a Holy Cross graduate.  She is an oncologist with a M.D. from Yale University and postdoctoral training from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the National Cancer Institute.  Currently an oncologist in practice in Dallas, Dr. O’Shaughnessey is also Regional Director for Physician Reliance Network Research, Inc and Director of their Chemopreventive Program.  The title of her talk will be UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING BREAST CANCER.  Again, the lecture is scheduled for March 22, 1999 at 4 p.m. in the Dinand Browsing Room.
Mon. 3/29 The Diagnosis-Violence Connection Rollins, ch. 7
Reader, ch. 12
Candib, ch. 4
Herman, J.L., Trauma and Recovery (1992), ch. 1,2,6 (see Abnormal Psych. reserves)
Selections from Prof. K. Turner’s book: Even the Women Must Fight (1998) 
Mon. 4/5 Easter Break  
Mon. 4/12 Presentations COLLECT JOURNALS TODAY
Mon. 4/19 Presentations  
Mon. 4/26 Presentations  
Mon. 5/3 Last Day of Class, Presentations  
Final Papers due by Wednesday, May 5, 1999 at 1:00 p.m.!
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