Sex and Medicine
Gender, Power and Authority in the Medical Profession
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- Author: Rosemary Pringle, Griffith University, Queensland
- Date Published: June 1998
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- isbn: 9780521578127
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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.
Read more- Shows how women doctors are not merely victims of medical power but are active agents of change
- Combines analysis of practical issues with new visions of medical practice
- A historical and sociological account of women in medicine
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'This admirable study is informed by a theoretical underpinning, but its real strength lies in its fresh research, its feel for the pulse of the present, its crisp prose, and Pringle's bold refusal to bow to the old clichés. Sex and Medicine is essential reading for anyone concerned with where the medical profession is going'. The Times Higher Education Supplement
See more reviews'… important and valuable contribution to our understanding of the ways in which a gendered health care division of labour has developed.' Medical History
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- Date Published: June 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521578127
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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