Analysing Gender in Healthcare

Analysing Gender in Healthcare

by Sarah Cooper
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 30/01/2023

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This book explores regulatory conundrums around adolescent sexual health, abortion and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK. In doing so, it seeks to examine the various stages at which women’s reproductive health comes into contact with government action and assesses how these legal and policy fields are shaped through the conceptual lens of policy networks. Transformed expectations of women’s roles, along with developed biological capabilities and understandings of gender and sexuality have driven an increasingly complex politics of sex and reproduction. The book argues that assumed medial control over these issues is overshadowed by government calculations of cost-effectiveness. Moreover, decisions on the design of programmes and levels of access continually reflect traditional family formation. The outcome is unsurprisingly the marginalisation of women in publicly funded healthcare, but with a clear further impact on gender and sex minorities. COVID-19 has disrupted these dynamics further, altering the manner in which previously inhibited patients engage with the NHS. As the pandemic recedes it has become more timely than ever to consider the future of gendered healthcare in the UK, and to question the likelihood of long term change in the ability of patients to inform health policy decisions. The book will appeal to scholars and students of gender and health policy, law and politics, as well as healthcare practitioners.

ISBN:
9783031087288
9783031087288
Category:
Central government policies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-01-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper is a blogger, vlogger and comedian whose wickedly satirical TheCooperReview.com pokes fun at corporate culture, the tech world and everything in between.

After fifteen years working for companies like Google and Yahoo!, she knows her subject well. Her '10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings' post has circled the globe, with over 5 million views.

Sarah lives in San Francisco and enjoys nineties rock, stand-up comedy and both sunny and cloudy days equally.

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