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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Editors -- Thinking Sociologically about Health and Healthcare -- Part I Sociological Perspectives on Health and Healthcare -- Introduction -- 1 The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare -- 2 The Medicalisation of Reproduction -- 3 The Social Role of Medicine -- 4 The Sociological Construction of Medicine -- 5 The Sociological Imagination -- Part II Making Sense of Health and Healthcare -- Introduction -- 6 Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches -- 7 Historical Data for Health Inequalities -- 8 Practice-Based Evidence -- 9 'Traditional' and 'Emancipatory' Research -- 10 Women Respondents in Health Research -- 11 Ethics and Ethics Committees -- Part III Health and Healthcare: Inequalities and Diversity -- Introduction -- 12 The Politics of Victim Blaming -- 13 The Determinants of Geographical Inequalities in Health -- 14 Children Reflecting on Health -- 15 Gender and Women's Health -- 16 Understanding Ethnic Inequalities in Health -- Part IV Health and Healthcare: Bodies, Minds and Emotions -- Introduction -- 17 The Body, Medicine and Death -- 18 'Enhancing' the Body -- 19 Humour and Illness -- 20 Anorexia as Disability -- 21 'Dirty Work' -- 22 Emotion Work in Midwifery -- Part V Power, Professions and Practice in Health and Healthcare -- Introduction -- 23 The Characteristics of a Profession -- 24 The Professionalisation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- 25 The Feminisation of Dentistry -- 26 Occupational Boundaries in the Operating Theatre -- 27 Choosing to be Childfree -- 28 The Internet and the Doctor-Patient Relationship -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Prologue -- Contributors' Biographies -- Introducing Gender, Identity and Reproduction -- Section I Representing Reproduction -- Introduction -- 1 Representations of Motherhood -- 2 Loving Fathers or Deadbeat Dads: The Crisis of Fatherhood in Popular Culture -- 3 Battle of the Gametes: Cultural Representations of 'Medically' Assisted Conception -- Summary -- Section II Reproductive Encounters: Cooperation and Negotiation -- Introduction -- 4 Birth Matters: Learning from My Past - A Midwifery for the Future -- 5 Your Dignity is Hung Up at the Door: Pakistani and White Women's Experiences of Childbirth -- 6 The Quintessential Female Act? Learning about Birth -- 7 Dutch Midwives: The Difference between Image and Reality -- 8 Is Breast Best? Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Identity -- Summary -- Section III Reproductive Identities: Exclusion and Resistance -- Introduction -- 9 Woe the Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters -- 10 I didn't Think Much of his Bedside Manner but he was very Skilled at his Job: Medical Encounters in Relation to 'Infertility' -- 11 Cutting Out Motherhood: Childfree Sterilized Women -- 12 Changing Women: An Analysis of Difference and Diversity in Women's Accounts of their Experiences of Menopause -- Summary -- 13 Reflecting on Reproduction -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y.