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Record Nr.

UNINA9910882999403321

Autore

Porter Dorothy <1953->

Titolo

Health Citizenship : : Essays in Social Medicine and Biomedical Politics / / Dorothy Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California, Medical Humanities Consortium, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-9834639-3-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages)

Collana

Perspectives in medical humanities

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Social medicine

Public health

Medical policy

public health

Medecine sociale

Sante publique

Politique sanitaire

Public Health

Health Policy

Social Medicine

Essays.

Collected Work

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Public health -- Social medicine -- Biomedical identity.

Sommario/riassunto

The rights and responsibilities of health citizenship are increasingly at the forefront of public policy debates concerning disease prevention and health management. These debates have global implications for prosperity, equality, and stability in dramatically changing demographic, economic, political and ecological environments. This collection of essays are intended to lead the reader to an understanding of the history of public health, the rise of the modern state, the role of



the social sciences in population health promotion, and the changing social contract of health citizenship in industrial and post-industrial societies --