Essays on women, medicine and health. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ann Oakley.
• Other Names: Oakley, Ann
• Contents: Pt. I. Divisions of Labour. 1. Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper. 2. The Limits of the Professional Imagination. 3. The Doctor's Problem. 4. On the Importance of Being a Nurse. 5. 'Consumerism' and the Future of the Perinatal Health Services. 6. Who Cares for Women? Science and 'Love' in Midwifery Today -- pt. II. Motherhood. 7. The Cries and Smiles of Babies. 8. Promoting the Health of Childbearing Women. 9. Perinatal Mortality -- Whose Problem? 10. Birth as a 'Normal' Process. 11. The Changing Social Context of Maternity Care -- pt. III. Technology. 12. The China Syndrome. 13. Technologies of Procreation: Hazards for Women and the Social Order? 14. A History Lesson: Ultrasound in Obstetrics. 15. Tamoxifen -- In Whose Best Interests? -- pt. IV. Methodology. 16. Ways of Knowing: Feminism and the Challenge to Knowledge. 17. Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms? 18. Some Problems of the Scientific Research Method and Feminist Research Practice.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 1993
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 610/.82; Women -- Health and hygiene; Women -- Social conditions; Feminism; Femmes -- Santé et hygiène; Femmes -- Conditions sociales; Féminisme; Feminism; Women -- Health and hygiene; Women -- Social conditions; Feminismus; Frau; Gesundheit; Vrouwen; Gezondheid; Geneeskunde; Frau; Women's Health; Sociology, Medical; United Kingdom; Collected Work
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474471398
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.