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Analysing Gender in Healthcare : The Politics of Sex and Reproduction by Sarah Geraldine Louise Cooper is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book explores regulatory conundrums around adolescent sexual health, abortion and assisted reproductive technologies in the UK. In doing so, it seeks to examine the various stages at which women’s reproductive health comes into contact with government action and assesses how these legal and policy fields are shaped through the conceptual lens of policy networks. Transformed expectations of women’s roles, along with developed biological capabilities and understandings of gender and sexuality have driven an increasingly complex politics of sex and reproduction. The book argues that assumed medial control over these issues is overshadowed by government calculations of cost-effectiveness. Moreover, decisions on the design of programmes and levels of access continually reflect traditional family formation. The outcome is unsurprisingly the marginalisation of women in publicly funded healthcare, but with a clear further impact on gender and sex minorities. COVID-19 has disrupted these dynamics further, altering the manner in which previously inhibited patients engage with the NHS. As the pandemic recedes it has become more timely than ever to consider the future of gendered healthca

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Author

Sarah Geraldine Louise Cooper

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9783031087271

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Medical