Gender, health, and healing : the public/private divide / edited by Gillian Bendelow ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bendelow, Gillian, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects.

Women.

Sexism in medicine.

Social medicine.

Health--Sex differences.

Health.

Feminism--Health aspects.

Feminism.

Women's Health.

Bioethics.

Sociology, Medical.

Delivery of Health Care.

Medical Subjects:

Women's Health.

Feminism.

Bioethics.

Sociology, Medical.

Delivery of Health Care.

Physical Description:

viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

In"Gender, Health and Healing a whole range of issues are brought together and connected to emerging concerns in contemporary life such as the new genetics and transformations in biomedical knowledge and practices. It offers a challenging assessment of gender relations and embodied practices across the public/private divide, using health and healing as paradigmatic examples. This thought-provoking volume lies at the intersection of gender studies, the sociology of health and healing, health policy, the critical analysis of scientific knowledge and the current debates around the body, health and emotions. Bringing together new and leading scholars in the field, it provides a unique and critical overview of contemporary debates in health care for an interdisciplinary readership. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Contents:

Introduction: overcoming divisions: reflections on tradition, change and critical continuity / Gillian Bendelow, Mick Carpenter, Caroline Vautier and Simon Williams

Corporeal reflections on the biological: reductionism, constructionism and beyond? / Simon J. Williams

Anchoring the head: the disappearing (biological) body / Lynda Birke

Building genethics from below / Hilary Rose

Why turn to speculative fiction? On reconceiving feminist research for the twenty-first century / Joan Haran

What about the girl next door? Gender and the politics of professional self-regulation / Celia Davies

Reflections on women's unpaid health work: selective use of packages of care / Gillian Lewando Hundt

Shouldering the burden: health work in the locality: the case of funeral directing / Anne Murcott

The archaeology of psychiatric disorder: gender and disorders of thought, emotion and behaviours / Joan Busfield

Experiences of ADHD: children, health research and emotion work / Gillian Bendelow and Geraldine Brady

Gender equity in health: debates and dilemmas / Lesley Doyal

Children, healing, suffering and voluntary consent / Priscilla Alderson

Integrated medicine: an examination of GP-complementary practitioner collaboration / Ursula Sharma

Medical uncertainty revisited / Renée C. Fox

Resisting 'fatal unclutteredness': conceptualising the sociology of health and illness into the millennium / Virginia Olesen

Concluding comments / Meg Stacey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415235731

041523574X

OCLC:

46791110