Full Description
Occupational health issues have been identified as crucially important in the debate about socio-economic determinants of health and illness. Yet few texts have addressed issues of work and health in any depth, while interest in the field continues to grow. Health and Work explores current debates about inequalities in health, focusing on the consequences of new patterns of employment for health, stress and the quality of working life. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives in an international, global context, each chapter examines changing discourses of risk and health and identifies implications for policy and practice within the health care arena, as well as in relation to the management of the work environment.
Contents
Notes on Contributors.- Introductionand Work; N.Daykin.- Women and Domestic Labour: Setting a Research Agenda; L.Doyal.- Paid and Unpaid Work and Mental Health: Towards a New Perspective; S.Payne.- The Well-Being of Carers: an Occupational Health Concern?; L.Lloyd.- Health and Work in the Sex Industry; G.Scambler & A.Scambler.- Death and Injury at Work: a Sociological Approach; T.Nichols.- Why We Still Have 'Old' Epidemics and Endemics in Occupational Health: Policy and Practice Failures and Some Possible Solutions; A.Watterson.- Tracking the Invisible: Scientific Indicators of the Health Hazards in Women's Work; K.Messing.- In the Hand or in the Head? Contextualising the Debate about Repetitive Strain Injury; J.Canaan.- Zones of Danger, Zones of Safety: Disabled People's Negotiations Around Sickness and the Sick Record; R.Pinder.- Selling Sex, Giving Care: the Construction of AIDS as a Workplace Hazard; T.Wilton.- Post-Modern Reflections: Deconstructing 'Risk', 'Health' and 'Work'; N.Fox.- Occupational Health Issues and Strategies: a View from Primary Health Care; S.Pickvance.- Participatory Approaches to Occupational Health Research; R.Loewenson A.C. Laurell & C.Hogstedt.- Index.
