Gendering Work? Women and Technologies in Health Care

Abstract

All research, as historian E. P. Thompson (1978) said long ago, is a dialogue between theory and evidence. Like geographer David Harvey (2006: 79), we understand theory ‘as an evolving structure of argument sensitive to encounters with the complex ways in which social processes are materially embedded in the web of life’. In this chapter, we seek to contribute to that evolution by drawing on our own past dialogues in ways that highlight the central role that gender plays.