Health and Work de Lesley Doyal

Health and Work: Critical Perspectives

Lesley Doyal

Norma Daykin

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 1999

Occupational health issues have been identified as crucially important in the debate about socio-economic determinants of health and illness. Yet few texts have addressed issues of work and health in any depth, while interest in the field continues to grow. Health and Work explores current debates about inequalities in health, focusing on the consequences of new patterns of employment for health, stress and the quality of working life. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives in an international, global context, each chapter examines changing discourses of risk and health and identifies implications for policy and practice within the health care arena, as well as in relation to the management of the work environment.

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Notă biografică

NORMA DAYKIN is Head of the School of Health Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research interests include health promotion and gender: she is currently working on a study of the impact of recent policy changes on the wellbeing of nurses working within the NHS.LESLEY DOYAL is Professor of Health and Social Care, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. She has published widely in the areas of health policy and women's studies and is the author of What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of Health.

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Notes on Contributors Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Health and Work; N.Daykin Women and Domestic Labour: Setting a Research Agenda; L.Doyal Paid and Unpaid Work and Mental Health: Towards a New Perspective; S.Payne The Well-Being of Carers: an Occupational Health Concern?; L.Lloyd Health and Work in the Sex Industry; G.Scambler & A.Scambler Death and Injury at Work: a Sociological Approach; T.Nichols Why We Still Have 'Old' Epidemics and Endemics in Occupational Health: Policy and Practice Failures and Some Possible Solutions; A.Watterson Tracking the Invisible: Scientific Indicators of the Health Hazards in Women's Work; K.Messing In the Hand or in the Head? Contextualising the Debate about Repetitive Strain Injury; J.Canaan Zones of Danger, Zones of Safety: Disabled People's Negotiations Around Sickness and the Sick Record; R.Pinder Selling Sex, Giving Care: the Construction of AIDS as a Workplace Hazard; T.Wilton Post-Modern Reflections: Deconstructing 'Risk', 'Health' and 'Work'; N.Fox Occupational Health Issues and Strategies: a View from Primary Health Care; S.Pickvance Participatory Approaches to Occupational Health Research; R.Loewenson A.C. Laurell & C.Hogstedt Index.