Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe, Sonja Olin Lauritzen

Children, Health and Well-Being

Policy Debates and Lived Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives.

Demonstrates the importance of research with children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives
Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children's health
Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children's health and illness
Moves the highly important issue of children's health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness

Produktdetails

• Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781119069515
• ISBN-10: 1119069513
• Artikelnr.: 42339214

Autorenporträt

Geraldine Brady is a Senior Research Fellow at Coventry University. Her research engages with policy and medicalised discourses that shape ideas about children's health and behaviour. She is Co-convenor, with Pam Lowe, of BSA's West Midlands Medical Sociology Group. Pam Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University. Her research is centred around women's reproductive health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, contraception and parenting. Sonja Olin Lauritzen is Professor Emerita of Education at Stockholm University. She has a research interest in health surveillance, the construction of normality and parental understandings of child health. She is the editor of Medical Technologies and the Life World; The Social Construction of Normality (with L-C Hydén, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors vii 1 Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective
with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction 1
Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe and Sonja Olin Lauritzen 2 Where is the child? A
discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on
mental-health-promoting interventions 13 Disa Bergnehr and Karin
Zetterqvist Nelson 3 Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English
social and public health policy and understandings of the child 27 Pam
Lowe, Ellie Lee and Jan Macvarish 4 Obesity in question: understandings of
body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta 41 Gillian M. Martin
5 'You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day . . . I saw it on
TV': Children's constructions of play in the context of Canadian public
health discourse of playing for health. 55 Stephanie A. Alexander, Caroline
Fusco and Katherine L. Frohlich 6 Parents' experiences of diagnostic
processes of young children in Norwegian day-care institutions 69 Terese
Wilhelmsen and Randi Dyblie Nilsen 7 The meaning of a label for teenagers
negotiating identity: experiences with autism spectrum disorder 83 Lise
Mogensen and Jan Mason 8 What am I 'living' with? Growing up with HIV in
Uganda and Zimbabwe 98 Sarah Bernays, Janet Seeley, Tim Rhodes and Zivai
Mupambireyi 9 Food, risk and place: agency and negotiations of young people
with food allergy 112 Marie-Louise Stjerna 10 Negotiating pain: the joint
construction of a child's bodily sensation 126 Laura Jenkins 11
Understanding inter-generational relations: the case of health maintenance
by children 140 Berry Mayall Index 153