Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Author: Judith Lorber

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0759102384

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Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.

Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Author: Judith Lorber

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2002-08-20

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0759116555

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Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition 'a rich and imaginative work.' In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries. They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist health care. For a creative, feminist-oriented alternative to traditional texts on medical sociology, medical anthropology, and the history of medicine, this is an ideal choice.

Gender and the Social Construction of Illness
Gender and the Social Construction of Illness

Author: Judith Lorber

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1997-05-30

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780803958142

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Reconfigures familiar concepts in medical sociology to explore how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and culture influence both the experience of symptoms of physical illnesses, and the treatment of the symptoms by the medical establishment. Also offers a gender-informed analysis of the knowledge base and underlying assumptions about illness, and the way questions are asked and research priorities are set. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Social Construction of What?
The Social Construction of What?

Author: Ian Hacking

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1999-05-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780674812000

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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness
An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness

Author: Dr Kevin White

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002-03-26

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1847877133

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The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that disease is socially produced and distributed. Becoming sick and unhealthy is not the result of individual misfortune or an accident of nature. It is a consequence of the social, political and economic organization of society. In developing this thesis, the author systematically introduces students to the major sociological explanations of the role and functions of medical explanations of disease. The book situates the student securely in the literature and provides a guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the major sociological approaches. It draws out the essential features of the major sociological contributions and elucidates how an appreciation of the dynamics of class, gender, ethnicity and the sociology of knowledge challenges medical power.

Gender and Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality

Author: Momin Rahman

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2010-12-06

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0745633773

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This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality provides fresh insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to recent research and theory, and wider social concerns throughout the world.

Gender and Health
Gender and Health

Author: Chloe E. Bird

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780521682800

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Gender and Health is the first book to examine how men's and women's lives and their physiology contribute to differences in their health. In a thoughtful synthesis of diverse literatures, the authors demonstrate that modern societies' health problems ultimately involve a combination of policies, personal behavior, and choice. The book is designed for researchers, policymakers, and others who seek to understand how the choices of individuals, families, communities, and governments contribute to health. It can inform men and women at each of these levels how to better integrate health implications into their everyday decisions and actions.

Mental Illness
Mental Illness

Author: Joan Busfield

Publisher: Polity

Published: 2011-11-07

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0745649068

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The author evaluates critiques of the concept of mental illness and of the way its expanding boundaries now define a far wider range of mental states, experiences and activities as pathological. Arguing that these boundaries need to be restricted, the author contends that many of the phenomena identified as mental illness are normal reactions to life's difficulties and that, while individuals may need support, it is not appropriate or helpful for such phenomena to be treated as indicative of mental disorder. Other important topics covered include the way mental illness is measured, its distribution across populations and over time, and the different types of care provided for those with identified mental illness.