| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and indexes. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Sociology and health promotion : health, risk and consumption under late modernism -- Health promotion : rhetoric and reality -- From Alma Ata to Asda -- and beyond : a commentary on the transition in health promotion services in primary care from commodity to control -- Sociological critiques of health promotion -- Feminist critiques of health promotion -- Developing anti-racist health promotion strategies -- The modern and the postmodern in health promotion -- The baby and the bath water : Examining socio-cultural and free-market critiques of health promotion -- The development of a scientific fact : The case of passive smoking -- Accidents and the risk society : Some problems with prevention -- Chance and modernity : Accidents as a public health problem -- 'London dentist in HIV scare' HIV and dentistry in popular discourse -- In the name of health -- Positive ageing : What is the message? -- Health and lifestyle : A critical mess? Notes on the dedifferentiation of health -- Consumption and health in the 'epidemiological' clinic of late modem medicine. |
| Summary |
Issues examined include: sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation, race and gender in health programmes. Invaluable for students, health promotors, public health doctors and academics. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Health promotion -- Social aspects.
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Health promotion -- Political aspects.
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Health behavior -- Public opinion.
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Lifestyles -- Health aspects.
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Health risk assessment -- Social aspects.
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Health Promotion -- trends.
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Health Behavior.
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Life Style.
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Social Environment.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Health behavior -- Public opinion.
(OCoLC)fst00952824
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Health promotion -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00953212
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Health promotion -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00953217
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Health risk assessment -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00953265
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Lifestyles -- Health aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00998421
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| Indexed Term |
Health Sociology |
| Added Author |
Bunton, Robin, 1954- editor.
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Nettleton, Sarah, 1960- editor.
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Burrows, Roger, 1962- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sociology of health promotion. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 0415116465 0415116473 (DLC) 94047490 (OCoLC)31814878 |
| ISBN |
0203429494 (electronic book) |
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9780203429495 (electronic book) |
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0415116465 (hardback) |
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9780415116466 (hardback) |
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9780415116473 (paperback) |
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0203295013 |
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0415116473 (paperback) |
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9780203295014 |
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