The sociology of health promotion : critical analyses of consumption, lifestyle, and risk / edited by Robin Bunton, Sarah Nettleton, and Roger Burrows.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.Description: ix, 253 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0415116473 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes. It will be invaluable reading for students, health promoters, public health doctors and academics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and indexes.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Sociology and Health Promotion: Health, Risk and Consumption
- Part 1 The Institutional Context of Health Promotion
- 2 Health Promotion: Rhetoric and Reality
- 3 From Alma Ata to Asda - and Beyond: The Transition in Health Promotion from Commodity to Control
- Part 2 Socio-Political Critiques of Health Promotion
- 4 Sociological Critiques of Health Promotion
- 5 Feminist Critiques of Health Promotion
- 6 Race and Health Promotion
- 7 The Modern and the Postmodern in Health Promotion
- 8 The Baby and the Bath Water: Examining Socio-Cultural and Free-Market Critiques of Health Promotion
- Part 3 Knowledge, Risk and Health Promotion
- 9 The Development of a Scientific Fact: the Case of Passive Smoking
- 10 Accidents and the Risk Society: Some Problems with Prevention
- 11 Chance and Modernity: Accidents as a Public Health Problem
- 12 'London Dentist in HIV Scare': HIV and Dentistry in Popular Discourse
- Part 4 Health Promotion, Consumption and Livestyle
- 13 In the Name of Health
- 14 Positive Ageing: What is the Message?
- 15 Health and Life-Style: A Critical Mess?
- 16 Consumption and Health in the 'Epidemiological' Clinic of Late Modern Medicine