Gill Bendelow / Mick Carpenter / Caroline Vautier / Simon Williams (eds.)

Gender, Health and Healing

The Public/Private Divide
Herausgeber: Bendelow, Gillian A; Vautier, Caroline; Carpenter, Mick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 177mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780415235730
• ISBN-10: 0415235731
• Artikelnr.: 21082734

Autorenporträt

Gillian Bendelow, Mick Carpenter, Caroline Vautier and Simon Williams are all members of the Centre for Research in Health, Medicine and Society, University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction One: Biology 'Revisited' 1. New Genetics and New Eugenics: the
Rise and Rise of Consumer Eugenics 2. Body Machines: Feminist Readings of
the Biological Body 3. Rethinking the Biological: Reductionism,
Constructionism and Beyond Two: Gender (in)Equality 4. Conceptualizing
Gender and Health 5. Men Behaving Badly? The Theory and Practice of
Gendered Approaches to Men's Health and Illness 6. Gender Equity in Health:
A Challenge for the next Millennium Three: Human Reproduction 7. Alien
Bodies and Genetic Technologies: Unintended Consequences and Responsible
Ethics 8. Assessing the Infertile: Health Professionals' perceptions of the
Suitability of Patients for Parenthood 9. Protection, Control or
Interference: Lay and Professional views on the desirability and 'risks' of
prenatal screening tests among Palestinian Women Four: Gender, 'Work' and
the (Emotional) Division of Labour 10. Gender and the Politics of
Professional Self-Regulation 11. The Gendering of Psychiatry 12. Emotions
Across the Public / Private Divide 13. The Mediators: Mothers of Disabled
Children and the Social Order Five: Ferment and Change 14. Health, Illness
and the Troubled Issue of Informed Consent 15. Medical Uncertainty and the
(Bio)Ethics Debate 16. Integrated Medicine 17. Health Medicine and Society
at and into the Millennium Afterword Conclusions