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One-eyed science : occupational health and women workers / Karen Messing ; foreword by Jeanne Mager Stellman.
- Title
- One-eyed science : occupational health and women workers / Karen Messing ; foreword by Jeanne Mager Stellman.
- Author
- Messing, Karen.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RC963.6.W65 M47 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xx, 244 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- After decades of research by the author and her colleagues into what women do in positions such as bank teller, secretary, waitress, nurse, factory worker, and poultry processor, Karen Messing is astonished to find that for many policymakers, researchers, and activists, the topic of women's occupational health doesn't exist.
- Messing laments the separation of even most feminist health researchers from workplace concerns and asserts that it is time to develop a science that can prevent women workers' pain and suffering.
- Responding to the tough question, why are scientists so unresponsive to the needs of women workers, Messing describes long-standing difficulties in gaining attention for the occupational health of women, ranging from the structure of the grant process and the conferences crucial to the professional life of researchers to the basic assumptions of scientific practice.
- Series Statement
- Labor and social change
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 1566395976 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1566395984 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97026885
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries