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Children, Health and Well-being: Policy Debates and Lived Experience - Couverture souple

Brady, Geraldine

 
9781119069515: Children, Health and Well-being: Policy Debates and Lived Experience
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1119069513 ISBN 13 : 9781119069515
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

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

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À propos de l'auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1119069513
ISBN 13 
9781119069515
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
166
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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