Essays on Women, Medicine & Health /
Oakley, Ann
Essays on Women, Medicine & Health / Ann Oakley. - 1 online resource (296 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Divisions of Labour -- 1 Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper -- 2 The Limits of the Professional Imagination -- 3 The Doctor's Problem -- 4 On the Importance of Being a Nurse -- 5 'Consumerism' and the Future of the Perinatal Health Services -- 6 Who Cares for Women? Science and 'Love' in Midwifery Today -- Part II: Motherhood -- 7 The Cries and Smiles of Babies -- 8 Promoting the Health of Childbearing Women -- 9 Perinatal Mortality — Whose Problem? -- 10 Birth as a 'Normal' Process -- 11 The Changing Social Context of Maternity Care -- Part III Technology -- 12 The China Syndrome -- 13 Technologies of Procreation Hazards for Women and the Social Order? -- 14 A History Lesson Ultrasound in Obstetrics -- 15 tamoxifen — In Whose Best Interests? -- Part IV Methodology -- 16 Ways of Knowing Feminism and the Challenge to Knowledge -- 17 Interviewing Women A Contradiction in Terms? -- 18 Some Problems of the Scientific Research Method and Feminist Research Practice -- Notes -- Index
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In this collection of essays, Ann Oakley, one of the most influential social scientists of the last twenty years, brings together the best of her work on the sociology of women's health. She focuses on four main themes - divisions of labour, motherhood, technology and methodology - and in her own inimitable style, combines serious academic discourse from a feminist sociological perspective with a practical understanding of what it is to be women facing the often impersonal world of twentieth-century medicine. Updating and substantially expanding on her earlier work, Telling the Truth About Jerusalem, this new collection bridges the medical/social divide in an accessible and personable way.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748604500 9781474471398
10.1515/9781474471398 doi
Feminism.
Social medicine.
Women--Health and hygiene.
Women--Social conditions.
Gender Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
610/.82
Essays on Women, Medicine & Health / Ann Oakley. - 1 online resource (296 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Divisions of Labour -- 1 Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper -- 2 The Limits of the Professional Imagination -- 3 The Doctor's Problem -- 4 On the Importance of Being a Nurse -- 5 'Consumerism' and the Future of the Perinatal Health Services -- 6 Who Cares for Women? Science and 'Love' in Midwifery Today -- Part II: Motherhood -- 7 The Cries and Smiles of Babies -- 8 Promoting the Health of Childbearing Women -- 9 Perinatal Mortality — Whose Problem? -- 10 Birth as a 'Normal' Process -- 11 The Changing Social Context of Maternity Care -- Part III Technology -- 12 The China Syndrome -- 13 Technologies of Procreation Hazards for Women and the Social Order? -- 14 A History Lesson Ultrasound in Obstetrics -- 15 tamoxifen — In Whose Best Interests? -- Part IV Methodology -- 16 Ways of Knowing Feminism and the Challenge to Knowledge -- 17 Interviewing Women A Contradiction in Terms? -- 18 Some Problems of the Scientific Research Method and Feminist Research Practice -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In this collection of essays, Ann Oakley, one of the most influential social scientists of the last twenty years, brings together the best of her work on the sociology of women's health. She focuses on four main themes - divisions of labour, motherhood, technology and methodology - and in her own inimitable style, combines serious academic discourse from a feminist sociological perspective with a practical understanding of what it is to be women facing the often impersonal world of twentieth-century medicine. Updating and substantially expanding on her earlier work, Telling the Truth About Jerusalem, this new collection bridges the medical/social divide in an accessible and personable way.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748604500 9781474471398
10.1515/9781474471398 doi
Feminism.
Social medicine.
Women--Health and hygiene.
Women--Social conditions.
Gender Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
610/.82