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Social support and motherhood : the natural history of a research project

Title
Social support and motherhood : the natural history of a research project / Ann Oakley.
Author
Oakley, Ann.
Publication
Oxford UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1992.

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Description
xii, 404 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Tells the story of a research project, how and why the research came into being and what happened when it did. The book links private troubles to public issues and investigates the connection between social relations and the health and well-being of women and their babies.
Subject
  • Mothers > Social networks
  • Motherhood
  • maternity
  • Mutterschaft
  • Soziales Netzwerk
  • Moederschap
  • Zwangerschap
  • Welzijn
  • Sociale relaties
  • Medische sociologie
  • Methodologie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Social Origins -- 2. 'A Friend a Day Keeps the Doctor Away': Social Support and Health -- 3. Sickness in Salonica and Other Stories -- 4. Eve in the Garden of Health Research -- 5. A Bite of the Apple -- 6. Who's Afraid of the Randomized Controlled Trial? -- 7. 'One of Mummy's Ladies' -- 8. Four Women -- 9. 'Real' Results -- 10. Women at Risk -- 11. The Poverty of Research -- 12. Models of Knowing and Understanding -- Appendix I: Study Guidelines -- Appendix II: Publications from the Social Support and Pregnancy Outcome Study.
ISBN
  • 063118273X
  • 9780631182733
  • 0631182748
  • 9780631182740
LCCN
92014642
OCLC
  • ocm25787859
  • 25787859
  • SCSB-1971047
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library