Gender And The Social Construction Of Illness
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Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Author | : Judith Lorber,Lisa Jean Moore |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 9780759102385 |
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Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Author | : Judith Lorber,Lisa Jean Moore |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2002-08-20 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780759116559 |
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Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries. They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist health care. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.
The Social Construction of Gender
Author | : Judith Lorber,Susan A. Farrell |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39076001188114 |
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Essentialist notions of gender difference are being challenged increasingly by research on the social construction of gender. Lorber and Farrell present a key collection of current research which illustrates how the constructivist approach has been applied to a variety of issues, including those centred on the family, the workplace, social class, ethnic identity and politics. Much of the recent work in this area has appeared in the journal Gender and Society which is the genesis of most of the papers in this volume.
The Social Construction of What
Author | : Ian Hacking |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2000-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674254275 |
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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse—very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the “culture wars” in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
Handbook of Medical Sociology Sixth Edition
Author | : Chloe E. Bird,Peter Conrad,Allen M. Fremont,Stefan Timmermans |
Publsiher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2010-11-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780826517227 |
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The latest version of an important academic resource published about once a decade since 1963
Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing
Author | : Cheryl Mattingly,Linda C. Garro |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520218256 |
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"A valuable collection. . . . The essays in the volume are all fresh, the result of recent work, and the opening chapter by Garro and Mattingly places the current trend in narrative analysis in historical context, explaining its diverse origins (and constructs) in a range of disciplines."—Shirley Lindenbaum, author of Kuru Sorcery "A good place to consult the narrative turn in medical anthropology. Thick with the richness and diversity and stubborn resistance to interpretations of human stories of illness. An anthropological antidote for too narrow a framing of the complex tangle of ways-of-being and ways-of-telling that make medicine a space of indelibly human experiences." —Arthur Kleinman, author of The Illness Narratives
Ageing the Body and the Gender Regime
Author | : Susan Pickard,Judi Robinson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-05 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1032570555 |
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This collection fills an important lacuna by acknowledging the importance of understanding both gender and age when approaching illness experiences.
An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness
Author | : Kevin White |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002-05-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0761964002 |
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The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual misfortune or an accident of nature. It is a consequence of the social, political and economic organization of society. In developing this thesis, the author systematically introduces students to the major sociological explanations of the role and functions of medical explanations of disease. The book situates the student securely in the literature and provides a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches. It draws out the essential features of the major sociological contributions and elucidates how an appreciation of the dynamics of class, gender, ethnicity and the sociology of knowledge challenges medical power.