Essays on Women, Medicine & Health / / Ann Oakley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Oakley, Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

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.

Table of 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