In "Women, Medicine and Health", Ann Oakley brings together the best of her essays on the sociology of women's health. Mixing 14 new articles with other pieces, she focuses on four major themes: the professional role of women within the health service; motherhood and maternity care; medical technology and women; and the methodology of research. Oakley combines serious academic discourse from a feminist sociological perspective with a practical understandng of what it is to be a woman facing the often impersonal world of 20th-century medicine.
- ISBN10 0748604413
- ISBN13 9780748604418
- Publish Date 28 May 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English