1st Edition
Gender, Health and Healthcare Women’s and Men’s Experience of Health and Working in Healthcare Roles
By Jacqueline H. Watts
Copyright 2015
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incorporate ’gender awareness’ in both health and employment policies, the significance of gender in these areas continues to be marginalised within public debates and academic discourses. Taking a social constructionist perspective, Watts considers the... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Constructing and Deconstructing Gender; Chapter 3 Women’s and Men’s Health; Chapter 4 Ideologies of Health, Care and Gender; Chapter 5 Working for Health; Chapter 6 Technology and Health; Chapter 7 Health Promotion; Chapter 8 Caring not Curing; Chapter 9 Intersectionality; Chapter 10 Conclusions;
Biography
Jacqueline H. Watts is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University in London, UK.
’Jacqueline H. Watts’ eminently readable text takes us on an exhilarating journey through the gendered health and healthcare landscape. With a firm grip on theory, Watts illustrates how gender plays out in the organisation, delivery and experience of health and healthcare and why it matters. Accessible, thought-provoking and beautifully written, the book is a must for anyone with an interest in health and healthcare and gendered inequalities.’ Helen Lomax, University of Northampton, UK ’Gender, Health and Healthcare is a magnificent piece of scholarship. Watts has provided an authentic and critical book that has exceptional coverage of conceptual, theoretical, policy and practice issues associated with health care. It is extremely well written with imaginative examples that impinge on understanding gender. It is bound to be a leader in the international literature on health and healthcare and deserves to be cited amongst the literature for several decades to come.’ Jason L. Powell, McMaster University, Canada
