Dr Ellie Lee

Ellie is reader in Social Policy at the University of Kent. Her research and teaching draws on sociological concepts such as ‘risk consciousness’ and ‘medicalisation’ to analyse the evolution of family policy and health policy. Her work explores why everyday issues – for example how women feel after abortion or how mothers feed their babies - turn into major preoccupations for policy makers and become heated topics of wider public debate.

She is the author of Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the United States and Great Britain (Aldine Transaction) and Co-author of Parenting Culture Studies (Palgrave). She is the director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies based in SSPSSR and regularly discusses her research in the media and other public forums.

Related Sessions
Saturday 20 October 2012, 5.15pm Hammerson Room
Sunday 21 October 2012, 10.30am Cinema 1
Sunday 21 October 2012, 5.00pm Cinema 1

Publications

Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the US and Britain

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