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

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 o...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1993
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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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