Critical Perspectives on Health

ISBN-13: 9781403994523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str.

Peter Duncan

Opis

This is a unique exploration of the nature of health, and the various ways in which it can be understood and interpreted. Readers are encouraged to challenge arguments and extend their thinking, helping to connect the key skills of critical analysis/reflection with the central conceptual and practical issues related to health and health care.

Spis treści

PART ONE: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, ACADEMIC STUDY AND HEALTH.- Studying Health: the Nature of Health and Health-related Knowledge.- Professional Identity and the Study of Health.- Disciplines, Diversity and Health.- Developing and Agenda for Studying Health.- PART TWO: DEVELOPING CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES.- Health Studies and Critical Analysis.- Health Studies and Critical Reflection.- PART THREE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH.- The Nature of Health: Critical Perspectives from Philosophy.- The Value of Health: Critical Perspectives from Ethics.- The Production of Health: Critical Perspectives from Sociology.- Developing Critical Perspectives ib Health.- Glossary.

O autorze

PETER DUNCAN is Programme Director for the postgraduate programmes in Health Promotion and Health and Society, Centre for Public Policy Research, King's College, London, UK .