Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research Project

ISBN-13: 9781447349488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 540 str.

Ann Oakley

Opis

Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process, telling how a research project on caring and social support is undertaken. It has much resonance for social science researchers and others interested in the experiences of mothers, and the relations between social research, academic knowledge and public policy.

Spis treści

Introduction; Social Origins; ‘A Friend a Day Keeps the Doctor Away’: Social Support and Health; Sickness in Salonica and Other Stories; Eve in the Garden of Health Research; A Bite of the Apple; Who’s Afraid of the Randomized Controlled Trial?; ‘One of Mummy’s Ladies’; Four Women; ‘Real’ Results; Women at Risk; The Poverty of Research; Models of Knowing and Understanding.