Essays on Women, Medicine and Health (Edinburgh Education and Society) - Hardcover

Oakley, Professor Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748604413 ISBN 13: 9780748604418

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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 word 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 a women facing the often impersonal world of twentieth-century medicine. Updating and expanding substantially on her earlier work, Telling the Truth About Jerusalem, this new collection bridges the medical/social divide in an accessible and personable way.

About this title

About the Author:

Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of London's Institute of Education, and Director of the Social Science Research Unit there.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0748604413
• ISBN 13: 9780748604418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 295