Gender, Health and Healing (eBook, ePUB)

The Public/Private Divide
Redaktion: Bendelow, Gill; Williams, Simon; Vautier, Caroline; Carpenter, Mick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gender, Health and Healing brings together leading names in the sociology of health, this volume provides a critical review of contemporary debates in health care for a broad based interdisciplinary readership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134563395
• Artikelnr.: 38265129

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