TY - JOUR
T1 - Restrained voices
T2 - Female inmates' views of health services in two Ohio prisons
AU - Ammar, Nawal H.
AU - Weaver, Robert R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Nawal H. Ammar is Professor, Justice Studies, 113 Bowman Hall, Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 (E-Mail: [email protected]). Robert R. Weaver is Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Youngstown State University, One University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555 (E-mail: [email protected]). This research is part of a larger study funded by the Open Society Institute.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This research presents the voices of women inmates on health care services in prisons. Foucault's discourse analysis as a means of bringing to the surface restrained voices provides the theoretical basis for this study. The research is based on face-to-face interviews of fifty-six women inmates to understand better the role gender plays in prison health care delivery. The results show that women are willing to discuss only physical ailments and are reluctant to speak about mental health care or HIV. While women benefit from health care services in prison, they still feel that a female-oriented approach to health care in general will improve the services tremendously. This approach is not dictated by the "difference" in the ailments between men and women, but by the "difference" in the way men and women encounter health care providers and illnesses.
AB - This research presents the voices of women inmates on health care services in prisons. Foucault's discourse analysis as a means of bringing to the surface restrained voices provides the theoretical basis for this study. The research is based on face-to-face interviews of fifty-six women inmates to understand better the role gender plays in prison health care delivery. The results show that women are willing to discuss only physical ailments and are reluctant to speak about mental health care or HIV. While women benefit from health care services in prison, they still feel that a female-oriented approach to health care in general will improve the services tremendously. This approach is not dictated by the "difference" in the ailments between men and women, but by the "difference" in the way men and women encounter health care providers and illnesses.
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U2 - 10.1300/J012v16n03_04
DO - 10.1300/J012v16n03_04
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847268291
SN - 0897-4454
VL - 16
SP - 67
EP - 89
JO - Women and Criminal Justice
JF - Women and Criminal Justice
IS - 3
ER -