did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780203996751

Gender, Health and Healing: The Public/Private Divide

by ; ; ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780203996751

  • ISBN10:

    0203996755

  • Copyright: 2001-11-08
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $69.95 Save up to $39.65
  • Rent Book $46.51
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

Gender, Health and Healing brings together leading names in the sociology of health, this volume provides a critical review of contemporary debates in health care for a broad based interdisciplinary readership.

Table of Contents

Introduction One: Biology 'Revisited'
New Genetics and New Eugenics: the Rise and Rise of Consumer Eugenics
Body Machines: Feminist Readings of the Biological Body
Rethinking the Biological: Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond Two: Gender (in)Equality
Conceptualizing Gender and Health
Men Behaving Badly? The Theory and Practice of Gendered Approaches to Men's Health and Illness
Gender Equity in Health: A Challenge for the next Millennium Three: Human Reproduction
Alien Bodies and Genetic Technologies: Unintended Consequences and Responsible Ethics
Assessing the Infertile: Health Professionals' perceptions of the Suitability of Patients for Parenthood
Protection, Control or Interference: Lay and Professional views on the desirability and 'risks' of prenatal screening tests among Palestinian Women Four: Gender, 'Work' and the (Emotional) Division of Labour
Gender and the Politics of Professional Self-Regulation
The Gendering of Psychiatry
Emotions Across the Public / Private Divide
The Mediators: Mothers of Disabled Children and the Social Order Five: Ferment and Change
Health, Illness and the Troubled Issue of Informed Consent
Medical Uncertainty and the (Bio)Ethics Debate
Integrated Medicine
Health Medicine and Society at and into the Millennium
Afterword
Conclusions
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program