Health and Work: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780333691915 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str.

Lesley Doyal;Norma Daykin

Opis

Occupational health issues have been identified as crucially important in the debate about socio-economic determinants of health and illness. Yet few texts have addressed issues of work and health in any depth, while interest in the field continues to grow. Health and Work explores current debates about inequalities in health, focusing on the consequences of new patterns of employment for health, stress and the quality of working life. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives in an international, global context, each chapter examines changing discourses of risk and health and identifies implications for policy and practice within the health care arena, as well as in relation to the management of the work environment.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Health and Work; N.Daykin.- Women and Domestic Labour: Setting a Research Agenda; L.Doyal.- Paid and Unpaid Work and Mental Health: Towards a New Perspective; S.Payne.- The Well-Being of Carers: an Occupational Health Concern?; L.Lloyd.- Health and Work in the Sex Industry; G.Scambler & A.Scambler.- Death and Injury at Work: a Sociological Approach; T.Nichols.- Why We Still Have 'Old' Epidemics and Endemics in Occupational Health: Policy and Practice Failures and Some Possible Solutions; A.Watterson.- Tracking the Invisible: Scientific Indicators of the Health Hazards in Women's Work; K.Messing.- In the Hand or in the Head? Contextualising the Debate about Repetitive Strain Injury; J.Canaan.- Zones of Danger, Zones of Safety: Disabled People's Negotiations Around Sickness and the Sick Record; R.Pinder.- Selling Sex, Giving Care: the Construction of AIDS as a Workplace Hazard; T.Wilton.- Post-Modern Reflections: Deconstructing 'Risk', 'Health' and 'Work'; N.Fox.- Occupational Health Issues and Strategies: a View from Primary Health Care; S.Pickvance.- Participatory Approaches to Occupational Health Research; R.Loewenson A.C. Laurell & C.Hogstedt.- Index.

O autorze

NORMA DAYKIN is Head of the School of Health Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research interests include health promotion and gender: she is currently working on a study of the impact of recent policy changes on the wellbeing of nurses working within the NHS.

LESLEY DOYAL is Professor of Health and Social Care, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. She has published widely in the areas of health policy and women's studies and is the author of What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health.