ISBN-13: 9781841503646 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 269 str.
Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies. With "The Grey Zoneof Health and Illness," Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care alike. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care tends to posit it as a sort of state of permanent emergency, like the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. To move beyond that, he argues, will require a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, "The Grey Zoneof Health and Illness "will have wide ramifications in the academy and beyond."