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Gender, health, and healing : the public/private divide
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- Creator
- edited by Gillian Bendelow ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002
- Physical Details
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- viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415235747, 041523574X, 9780415235730, 0415235731
- OCLC
- ocm46791110
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: overcoming divisions: reflections on tradition, change and critical continuity / Gillian Bendelow, Mick Carpenter, Caroline Vautier and Simon Williams -- Corporeal reflections on the biological: reductionism, constructionism and beyond? / Simon J. Williams -- Anchoring the head: the disappearing (biological) body / Lynda Birke -- Building genethics from below / Hilary Rose -- Why turn to speculative fiction? On reconceiving feminist research for the twenty-first century / Joan Haran -- What about the girl next door? Gender and the politics of professional self-regulation / Celia Davies -- Reflections on women's unpaid health work: selective use of packages of care / Gillian Lewando Hundt -- Shouldering the burden: health work in the locality: the case of funeral directing / Anne Murcott -- The archaeology of psychiatric disorder: gender and disorders of thought, emotion and behaviours / Joan Busfield -- Experiences of ADHD: children, health research and emotion work / Gillian Bendelow and Geraldine Brady -- Gender equity in health: debates and dilemmas / Lesley Doyal -- Children, healing, suffering and voluntary consent / Priscilla Alderson -- Integrated medicine: an examination of GP-complementary practitioner collaboration / Ursula Sharma -- Medical uncertainty revisited / Renée C. Fox -- Resisting 'fatal unclutteredness': conceptualising the sociology of health and illness into the millennium / Virginia Olesen -- Concluding comments / Meg Stacey
Subjects
- Women -- Health and hygiene -- Sociological aspects.
- Sexism in medicine.
- Social medicine.
- Health -- Sex differences.
- Feminism -- Health aspects.
- Women's Health.
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- Feminism.
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- Bioethics.
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- Sociology, Medical.
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- Delivery of Health Care.
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