Gender, Health and Healing: The Public/Private Divide

, by Bendelow, Gill; Carpenter, Mick; Vautier, Caroline; Williams, Simon

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ISBN: 9780203996751 | 0203996755
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Copyright: 11/8/2001

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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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Introduction One: Biology 'Revisited'
New Genetics and New Eugenics: the Rise and Rise of Consumer Eugenics
Body Machines: Feminist Readings of the Biological Body
Rethinking the Biological: Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond Two: Gender (in)Equality
Conceptualizing Gender and Health
Men Behaving Badly? The Theory and Practice of Gendered Approaches to Men's Health and Illness
Gender Equity in Health: A Challenge for the next Millennium Three: Human Reproduction
Alien Bodies and Genetic Technologies: Unintended Consequences and Responsible Ethics
Assessing the Infertile: Health Professionals' perceptions of the Suitability of Patients for Parenthood
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
Gender and the Politics of Professional Self-Regulation
The Gendering of Psychiatry
Emotions Across the Public / Private Divide
The Mediators: Mothers of Disabled Children and the Social Order Five: Ferment and Change
Health, Illness and the Troubled Issue of Informed Consent
Medical Uncertainty and the (Bio)Ethics Debate
Integrated Medicine
Health Medicine and Society at and into the Millennium
Afterword
Conclusions
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