This collection reconceptualizes women's health and healing, crossing disciplinary boundaries to rupture the biomedicalization of women's bodies. It examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care and offers new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues and nutrition to public health surveillance and AIDS.
This collection reconceptualizes women's health and healing, crossing disciplinary boundaries to rupture the biomedicalization of women's bodies. It e...
The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the Second World War, the first social transformation of American medicine. Then, in an ongoing process called medicalization, the jurisdiction of medicine began expanding, redefining certain areas once deemed moral, social, or legal problems (such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and obesity) as medical problems. The editors of this important collection argue that since the mid-1980s, dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and...
The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the Second World War, the fir...
Die Situationsanalyse schliet an den Grounded Theory-Ansatz an, erweitert ihn und eroffnet neue Perspektiven fur die qualitative Forschung in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, die Professionsforschung sowie verwandte Arbeitsfelder. Prazise Mapping-Methoden generieren differenzierte und komplexe empirische Studien. Verwendet werden Interviews, ethnographisches, historisches, visuelles und anderes diskursives Datenmaterial, einschlielich Multi-Site-Forschung. Die Situationsanalyse verknupft Diskurs und Handeln, Handlung und Struktur, Bild, Schrift und die historische Dimension der...
Die Situationsanalyse schliet an den Grounded Theory-Ansatz an, erweitert ihn und eroffnet neue Perspektiven fur die qualitative Forschung in den Sozi...