From Health Behaviours to Health Practices

Critical Perspectives
Herausgegeben von Cohn, Simon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting a range of contributions from international scholars that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour, this volume argues for a socially situated approach to explain what people do and why in relation to their health and experiences of illness.

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A wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and conduct research into what people do and don't do, in relation to their health and experiences of illness.

Presents a collection of international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour
Includes a wide range of both theoretical perspectives and empirical cases
Reasserts the unique contribution social sciences can make to health research
Challenges assumptions about the usefulness of the concept of health behaviour
A timely publication given the rise of chronic and lifestyle diseases and the resulting changes in global health agendas

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Produktdetails

• Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781118898390
• ISBN-10: 1118898397
• Artikelnr.: 40742624

Autorenporträt

Simon Cohn is a Reader in Medical Anthropology at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on issues related to diagnosis, contested conditions and chronic illness in the UK and other high-income societies. With a strong commitment to contemporary social theory, Cohn is interested in ways in which innovative social science can shape aspects of medical practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors vii
1 From health behaviours to health practices: an introduction 1
Simon Cohn
2 Actors, patients and agency: a recent history 7
David Armstrong
3 A socially situated approach to inform ways to improve health and
wellbeing 19
Christine Horrocks and Sally Johnson
4 A relational approach to health practices: towards transcending the
agency-structure divide 31
Gerry Veenstra and Patrick John Burnett
5 Environmental justice and health practices: understanding how health
inequities arise at the local level 43
Katherine L. Frohlich and Thomas Abel
6 Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce
health inequities 57
Fran Baum and Matthew Fisher
7 Behaviour change and social blinkers? The role of sociology in trials of
self-management behavior in chronic conditions 69
Bie Nio Ong, Anne Rogers, Anne Kennedy, Peter Bower, Tom Sanders, Andrew
Morden, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Jane C. Richardson and Fiona Stevenson
8 Thinking about changing mobility practices: how a social practice
approach can help 82
Sarah Nettleton and Judith Green
9 Providers' constructions of pregnant and early parenting women who use
substances 95
Cecilia Benoit, Camille Stengel, Lenora Marcellus, Helga Hallgrimsdottir,
John Anderson, Karen MacKinnon,
Rachel Phillips, Pilar Zazueta and Sinead Charbonneau
10 Staying 'in the zone' but not passing the 'point of no return':
embodiment, gender and drinking in mid-life 106
Antonia C. Lyons, Carol Emslie and Kate Hunt
11 Complexities and contingencies conceptualised: towards a model of
reproductive navigation 120
Erica van der Sijpt
12 Sustained multiplicity in everyday cholesterol reduction: repertoires
and practices in talk about 'healthy living' 132
Catherine M. Will and Kate Weiner
13 Enjoy your food: on losing weight and taking pleasure 145
Else Vogel and Annemarie Mol
Index 158