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

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Author / Creator:Oakley, Ann
Imprint:Oxford UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1992.
Description:xii, 404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1371639
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ISBN:063118273X
0631182748 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [378]-396) and index.
Table of 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.