Health promotion : philosophy, prejudice and practice / David Seedhouse.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chichester : John Wiley, c2004.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xix, 295 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780470847329 (hbk.) :
- 9780470847336 (pbk.) :
- 0470847336 (PBK.)
- 613 SEE
- RA427.8 .S44 2004
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Previous ed.: 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one: The magpie professon -- Dialogue one: Health promotion on offer: all models available -- Dialogue two: Where\'s the beef? -- Chapter one: Glad to be vague -- Chapter two: Hollow words - how to reveal them -- Chapter three: Evidnce and Ethics--Dialogue three: Progress so far -- Part two: Prejudice first, evidence second -- Chapter four. What drives health promtion? -- Chapter five. The political tap roots of health promotion -- Dialogue four: The outsider -- Chapter six.The outsider problem -- Part three: The foundations theory of health promotion -- Chapter seven. An introduction to the foundations theory of health promotion -- Chapter eight: Tough questions -- Dialogue five. The end of illusion -- Chapter nine. Ethics and health promotion -- Chapter ten: Rational field health promotion -- Dialogue six.Time to face the music -- Dialogue seven. Strategies for health.
Seedhouse sets out to clarify and develop the range of theories in health promotion, identify their philosophical source and explain their implications for practical work, teaching students to use logic to fill the gap between rhetoric and practice.