Gender, Health and Healing

Gillian Bendelow, Mick Carpenter, Caroline Vautier and Simon Williams are all members of the Centre for Research in Health, Medicine and Society, University of Warwick.

Introduction One: Biology 'Revisited' 1. New Genetics and New Eugenics: the Rise and Rise of Consumer Eugenics 2. Body Machines: Feminist Readings of the Biological Body 3. Rethinking the Biological: Reductionism, Constructionism and Beyond Two: Gender (in)Equality 4. Conceptualizing Gender and Health 5. Men Behaving Badly? The Theory and Practice of Gendered Approaches to Men's Health and Illness 6. Gender Equity in Health: A Challenge for the next Millennium Three: Human Reproduction 7. Alien Bodies and Genetic Technologies: Unintended Consequences and Responsible Ethics 8. Assessing the Infertile: Health Professionals' perceptions of the Suitability of Patients for Parenthood 9. Protection, Control or Interference: Lay and Professional views on the desirability and 'risks' of prenatal screening tests among Palestinian Women Four: Gender, 'Work' and the (Emotional) Division of Labour 10. Gender and the Politics of Professional Self-Regulation 11. The Gendering of Psychiatry 12. Emotions Across the Public / Private Divide 13. The Mediators: Mothers of Disabled Children and the Social Order Five: Ferment and Change 14. Health, Illness and the Troubled Issue of Informed Consent 15. Medical Uncertainty and the (Bio)Ethics Debate 16. Integrated Medicine 17. Health Medicine and Society at and into the Millennium Afterword Conclusions