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 : Routledge, 1996.Description: ix, 253p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780415116473 (pbk.) :
- 0415116473
- Health risk assessment -- Social aspects
- Life style -- Health aspects
- Health behavior -- Public opinion
- Health promotion -- Political aspects
- Health promotion -- Social aspects
- Health promotion -- Social aspects
- Health promotion -- Political aspects
- Health behavior
- Society
- Health, relationships & personal development
- Medical sociology
- Anthropology
- Public health & preventive medicine
- Health systems & services
- 306.461 BUN
- RA427.8.S6 1996
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Originally published: 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index.
1.Sociology and health promotion: health, risk, and consumption under later modernism. Roger Burrows, Sarah Nettleton and Robin Bunton Part I.The institutional context of health promotion 2.Health promotion: rhetoric and reality. Richard Parish 3.From Alma Ata to Asda - and beyond Part II.Socio-political critiques of health promotion 4.Sociological critiques of health promotion. Sarah Nettleton and Robin Buntion 5.Feminist critiques of health promotion. Norma Daykin and Jennie Naidoo 6.Developing anti-racist health promotion. Jenny Douglas 7.The modern and the postmodern in health promotion. Michael P. Kelly and Bruce Charlton 8.The baby and the bath water: examining socio-cultural and free-market critiques of health promotion. Charlie Davison and George Davey Smith Part III.Knowledge, risk and health promotion 9.The development of a scientific fact: the case of passive smoking. Peter Jackson 10.Accidents and the risk society: some problems with prevention. Judith Green 11.Chance and modernity: accidents as a public health problem. Lindsay Prior 12.'London dentist in HIV scare': HIV and dentistry in popular discourse. Nicki Thorogood Part IV. Health promotion, consumption and lifestyle 13.In the name of health. Barry Glassner 14.Positive ageing: what is the message. Mike Hepworth 15.Health and lifestyle: a critical mess? Notes on the dedifferentiation of health. Martin O'Brien 16.Consumption and health in the 'epidemiological' clinic of late modern medicine. Robin Bunton and Roger Burrows