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Essays on Women, Medicine & Health

By: Ann Oakley

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Paperback | 1 May 1993

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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.

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Clarity of analysis, combined with an accessible and often humourous writing style make this book an important contribution to medical sociology and women's studies and is a tribute to Oakley's commitment to both disciplines. The span of these bold, succinct, erudite essays is impressive. Eminently readable ... thoroughly enjoyable Clarity of analysis, combined with an accessible and often humourous writing style make this book an important contribution to medical sociology and women's studies and is a tribute to Oakley's commitment to both disciplines. The span of these bold, succinct, erudite essays is impressive. Eminently readable ... thoroughly enjoyable

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Non-Fiction Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health Women's Health Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Medicine Medicine in General Politics & Government Social Services & Welfare

Social Welfare & Social Services Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory

Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction	p. ix
Divisions of Labour	p. 1
Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper	p. 3
The Limits of the Professional Imagination	p. 19
The Doctor's Problem	p. 31
On the Importance Of Being a Nurse	p. 38
'Consumerism' and the Future of the Perinatal Health Services	p. 52
Who Cares for Women?Science and 'Love' in Midwifery Today	p. 65
Motherhood	p. 79
The Cries and Smiles of Babies	p. 81
Promoting the Health of Childbearing Women	p. 95
Perinatal Mortality -- Whose Problem?	p. 108
Birth as a 'Normal' Process	p. 124
The Changing Social Context of Maternity Care	p. 139
Technology	p. 155
The China Syndrome	p. 157
Technologies of Procreation Hazards for Women and the Social Order?	p. 171
A History Lesson Ultrasound in Obstetrics	p. 189
Tamoxifen -- in Whose Best Interests?	p. 198
Methodology	p. 201
Ways of Knowing Feminism and the Challenge to Knowledge	p. 219
Interviewing Women A Contradiction in Terms?	p. 221
Some Problems of the Scientific Research Method and Feminist Research Practice	p. 243
Notes	p. 265
Index	p. 290
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