Health, Illness, and Medicine in CanadaUsing four different sociological perspectives--structural-funcational, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist--Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada 4e provides an essential study to the sociology of health. The text examines occupational diseases, environmental challenges, the inequalities of age, gender, class, race, and ethnicity, the experience of getting sick and going to the doctor, and the extensive and profit-motivated impact of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. |
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... feminist scholarship and policy . The organization of women in the late sixties and sev- enties for abortion reform , following the liberal- ization of sexual norms and mores that accompanied the widespread prescription of the birth ...
... feminist scholarship and policy . The organization of women in the late sixties and sev- enties for abortion reform , following the liberal- ization of sexual norms and mores that accompanied the widespread prescription of the birth ...
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... Feminist methodologies and their logical corollaries in relation to ethnicity , class , and power are built on the observation of two features of gender organization — differentiation and inequity . Feminists argue that the institution ...
... Feminist methodologies and their logical corollaries in relation to ethnicity , class , and power are built on the observation of two features of gender organization — differentiation and inequity . Feminists argue that the institution ...
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... feminists have added race , class , sexual orientation , and ability / disability as problematics to be raised in all feminist research . Table 2.4 lists the assumptions of feminist social science . ( 1 ) For the most part , structural ...
... feminists have added race , class , sexual orientation , and ability / disability as problematics to be raised in all feminist research . Table 2.4 lists the assumptions of feminist social science . ( 1 ) For the most part , structural ...
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