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Social support and motherhood : the natural history of a research project /
Drawing on her long experience as an academic researcher and writer, Ann Oakley develops a sociology of the research process itself, telling the story of how a research project is undertaken and what happens during it, to both researchers and those who are researched. This remarkable book focuses on...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA :
Policy Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; SOCIAL SUPPORTAND MOTHERHOOD; Contents; New Introduction1; Acknowledgements; Note on Numbers; Introduction; 'The real problem'; "The turning-point'?; 1. Social Origins; 'Knit your own incubator'; Quantifying the biological and the social; The focus on low birthweight; The medicalization of health; Caring for the poor women?; 'I've really enjoyed having someone to talk to'; Shouting 'Eureka'; 2. 'A Friend a Day Keeps the Doctor Away': Social Support and Health; The rising star of social support; The weakness of the medical model; What is social support?
- Pleasing the patient for a changeWhat health outcomes does social support influence?; Social support and reproduction; How does social support work?; The research challenge; 3. Sickness in Salonica and Other Stories; Natural and unnatural experiments; Controlled and uncontrolled experiments; Caring for women: interventions in motherhood; What do women really want?; Promises of Evian water; Consenting adults?; Conclusion; 4. Eve in the Garden of Health Research; 'A few technical points ... '; 'The problem with the research design'; Getting at the oyster.
- 'A Change in Structure for Changing Circumstance'?5. A Bite of the Apple; Operationalizing the concept; Risks of antenatal 'care'?; In conclusion then ...?; 6. Who's Afraid of the Randomized Controlled Trial?; 'The field is an important one'; Getting started; Negotiating access; A sense of humour needed; The 'housework' of the RCT; Whose problem?; 7. 'One of Mummy's Ladies'; The meaning of social support; What did the midwives do?; Differences between the midwives; Just like Dynasty?; A welfare state?; Who supports the supporters?; Conclusion; 8. Four Women.
- 'They just won't let me have the chance''Money doesn't solve problems'; 'When he's crying it's my fault'; 'If it's a boy, I just don't think I'll keep it'; Researching motherhood; 9. 'Real' Results; Producing results; Will the real birthweight please stand up?; Quantification of the body in history; The birth of birthweight; Birthweight as a moral category; The quality of quantitative data; The significance of significance tests; 10. Women at Risk; 'The doctors don't help'; Beliefs about low birthweight; Being researched; Perceptions of randomness; Predicting your own risk.
- 11. The Poverty of ResearchDid it work?; From here to eternity; Poor women; Smokescreens; Getting the message across; 12. Models of Knowing and Understanding; Ways of knowing; The gendering of methodology; The wisdom of hindsight; The relations of reproduction: understanding women; Appendix I; Study Guidelines; Appendix II; Publications from the Social Support and Pregnancy Outcome Study; Notes; References; Index.