| Description |
xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Health and Work / Norma Daykin -- 1. Women and Domestic Labour: Setting a Research Agenda / Lesley Doyal -- 2. Paid and Unpaid Work in Mental Health: Towards a New Perspective / Sarah Payne -- 3. The Wellbeing of Carers: An Occupational Health Concern / Liz Lloyd -- 4. Health and Work in the Sex Industry / Graham Scambler and Annette Scambler -- 5. Death and Injury at Work: A Sociological Approach / Theo Nichols -- 6. Why We Still Have 'Old' Epidemics and 'Endemics' in Occupational Health: Policy and Practice Failures and Some Possible Solutions / Andrew Watterson -- 7. Tracking the Invisible: Scientific Indicators of the Health Hazards in Women's Work / Karen Messing -- 8. In the Hand or in the Head? Contextualising the Debate about Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) / Joyce E. Canaan -- 9. Zones of Danger, Zones of Safety: Disabled People's Negotiations around Sickness and the Sick Record / Ruth Pinder |
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10. Selling Sex, Giving Care: The Construction of AIDS as a Workplace Hazard / Tamsin Wilton -- 11. Postmodern Reflections: Deconstructing 'Risk', 'Health' and 'Work' / Nick J. Fox -- 12. Occupational Health Issues and Strategies: A View from Primary Health Care / Simon Pickvance -- 13. Participatory Approaches in Occupational Health Research / Rene Loewenson, Asa C. Laurell and Christer Hogstedt |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography pages 250-252 |
| Subject |
Industrial safety.
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Work environment.
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Occupational diseases.
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Industrial hygiene -- Social aspects.
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Industrial hygiene.
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| Author |
Doyal, Lesley.
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Daykin, Norma.
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| LC no. |
99019219 |
| ISBN |
0333691903 : |
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0333691911 paperback |
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0312223420 St.Martins-cloth |
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