Gender, work and medicine : women and the medical division of labour
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Gender, work and medicine : women and the medical division of labour
（Sage studies in international sociology, 44）
Sage, 1993
- : pbk
Available at 14 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This critical assessment of the division of labour in medicine sets current practice in its historical context. The book demonstrates the centrality of gender divisions both between and within the individual medical and health professions - doctors, nurses, midwives and others.
Drawing on accounts from different countries and a wide range of professional groups, the contributors examine the extent to which the division of labour is changing and the effect of such changes on the status of women within the health professions. While the proportion of female doctors is rising, the continued constraints on women attaining full equality are explored.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introduction - Elianne Riska
PART TWO: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
Sex Stereotyping of Women Doctors' Contribution to Medicine - S Muthu Chidambaram
India
Women Doctors in a Changing Profession - Mary Ann Elston
The Case of Britain
Why Women Physicians Will Never be True Equals in the American Medical Profession - Judith Lorber
Women Physicians - Elianne Riska and Katarina Wegar
A New Force in Medicine?
PART THREE: OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
The Subordination of Nurses in Health Care - Mick Carpenter
Towards a Social Divisions Approach
A Cross-national View of the Status of Midwives - Raymond G de Vries
Health-Manpower Planning or Gender Relations? The Obvious and the Oblique - Arnim[ac]ee Kazanjian
PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions - Katarina Wegar
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