The imperative of health [[electronic resource] ] : public health and the regulated body / / Deborah Lupton
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| Autore: |
Lupton Deborah
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| Titolo: |
The imperative of health [[electronic resource] ] : public health and the regulated body / / Deborah Lupton
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : SAGE, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (181 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public health |
| Medicine, Preventive | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-175) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Governing the Masses: the Emergence of the Public Health Movement; Chapter 2 - Technologies of Health: Contemporary Health Promotion and Public Health; Chapter 3 - Taming Uncertainty: Risk Discourse and Diagnostic Testing; Chapter 4 - Communicating Health: the Mass Media and Advertising in Health Promotion; Chapter 5 - Bodies, Pleasures and the Practices of the Self; Conclusion; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies, Deborah Lupton explores public health and health promotion using contemporary sociocultural and political theory, particularly that building on Foucault's writings on subjectivity, embodiment and power relations. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The imperative of health |
| ISBN: | 9781446265840 (eBook) |
| 0803979355 | |
| 1446265846 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786234303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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