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Zusatztext
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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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Autorenportrait
- 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).
Detailansicht
Children, Health and Well-being
Policy Debates and Lived Experience, Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
ISBN/EAN: 9781119069515
Umbreit-Nr.: 8169888
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 168 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 04.09.2015
Auflage: 1/2015