Sex and Medicine: Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession

ISBN-13: 9780521570930 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 252 str.

Rosemary Pringle

Opis

This book asks whether women doctors make a difference. Based on an extensive survey of general practioners and specialists in Australia and the UK, the book evokes the culture of contemporary medicine by describing the experiences of doctors themselves. Pringle employs a distinctive theoretical approach, but writes accessibly and with insight about a profession that is slowly being transformed--partly due to pressure from the increasing number of women doctors. This original and important work contains new visions for medical practice.

Recenzje

'… important and valuable contribution to our understanding of the ways in which a gendered health care division of labour has developed.' Medical History

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Women take the field; 3. The power of gynaecology; 4. As a fish out of water: women in surgery; 5. Inside medicine: the physician specialties; 6. The unconscious of medicine: anaesthesia and psychiatry; 7. The subalterns of general practice; 8. Nursing a grievance: doctor-nurse relations; 9. Doctors and the women's health movement; 10. Conclusion.