Gender and professional authority in hospital.

• Other Authors: Wong, Shun-wah.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Medical personnel > Sex differences; Medical personnel > China > Hong Kong > Sex differences; Health Occupations; Health Occupations > Hong Kong; Health Personnel; Health Personnel > Hong Kong; Attitude of Health Personnel; Sex Characteristics
• Online Access: http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891584; http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-324264

Wong Shun-wah. === Thesis submitted on: December 2002. === Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91). === Abstract --- p.i === Acknowledgements --- p.iii === Contents --- p.v === Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 === Chapter 1.1 --- Empirical Puzzle and Theoretical Questions === Chapter 1.2 --- Casing a Case: Hospital as a Critical Case for Studying Gender and Professional Authority === Chapter 1.3 --- The Methodology === Chapter 1.4 --- Overview of the Thesis === Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review and Theoretical Framework --- p.10 === Chapter 2.1 --- Professional dominance and Professional Dependency === Chapter 2.2 --- Enthographic Studies of Resistance === Chapter 2.3 --- Gender and Organization === Chapter Chapter 3 --- Gendering Occupation in the Health Care Sector and the Gendered Occupational Structure of Hospitals --- p.16 === Chapter 3.1 --- Gender Segregation in the Health Care Workplace === Chapter 3.2 --- Hospital Setting: A Gendered Organization === Chapter Chapter 4 --- Resistance of Nurses --- p.45 === Chapter 4.1 --- Resistance Strategies of Women Nurses Mothering Gossip Symbolic Giving Explicit Resistance === Chapter 4.2 --- Strategies of Men Nurses: Resistance and Dilemma === Chapter 4.3 --- Divided and Not Organized === Chapter Chapter 5 --- Restrictive Authority of Doctors --- p.70 === Chapter 5.1 --- The Dependency of Doctors on Nurses in the Gendered Organizational Structure of Hospital === Chapter 5.2 --- Men Doctors' Means to Gain the Compliance of Nurses === Chapter 5.3 --- Women Doctors' Means to Gain the Compliance of Nurses === Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.80 === Chapter 6.1 --- The Consequences of the resistance of women nurses: Accommodation and the Reproduction of Gender === Chapter 6.2 --- The Contribution of this Research and Issues for Future Study === Bibliography --- p.84