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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172238403321

Titolo

The sociology of health promotion : critical analyses of consumption, lifestyle, and risk / / edited by Robin Bunton, Sarah Nettleton, and Roger Burrows

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-134-81882-3

1-134-81883-1

0-415-24602-4

9786610067916

0-203-42949-4

0-415-11647-3

1-280-06791-8

Descrizione fisica

ix, 253p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

BuntonRobin <1954->

BurrowsRoger <1962->

NettletonSarah <1960->

Disciplina

306.4/61

Soggetti

Health behavior - Public opinion

Health promotion - Political aspects

Health promotion - Social aspects

Health risk assessment - Social aspects

Lifestyles - Health aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Sociology and health promotion -- part Part I The institutional context of health promotion -- chapter 2 Health promotion Rhetoric and reality -- chapter 3 From Alma Ata to Asda�and beyond -- part Part II Socio-political critiques of health promotion -- chapter 4 Sociological critiques of health promotlon -- chapter 5 Feminist critiques of health promotion / Norma Daykin -- chapter 6 Developing anti-racist health promotion strategies / Jenny Douglas -- chapter 7 The modern and the postmodern in health promotion / Michael P. Kelly -- chapter 8 The baby and the bath water



-- part Part III Knowledge, risk and health promotion -- chapter 9 The development of a scientific fact -- chapter 10 Accidents and the risk society -- chapter 11 Chance and modernity -- chapter 12 London dentist in HIV scare HIV and dentistry in popular discourse -- part Part IV Health promotion, consumption and lifestyle -- chapter 13 In the name of health / Barry Glassner -- chapter 14 Positive ageing -- chapter 15 Health and lifestyle -- chapter 16 Consumption and health in the epidemiological clinic of late modern medicine / Robin Bunton.