Essays on women, medicine and health / Ann Oakley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oakley, Ann, author.

Series:

Edinburgh education and society series.

Edinburgh education and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 295 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-289) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7139-0