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This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research<i>with</i> children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in childrens lives.<br /><br /><ul><li>Demonstrates the importance of research<i>with</i> children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in childrens lives</li><li>Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding childrens health</li><li>Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of childrens health and illness</li><li>Moves the highly important issue of childrens health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness</li></ul>
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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
- <b>Geraldine Brady</b> is a Senior Research Fellow at Coventry University. Her research engages with policy and medicalised discourses that shape ideas about childrens health and behaviour. She is Co-convenor, with Pam Lowe, of BSAs West Midlands Medical Sociology Group.<b><br /><br /></b><b>Pam Lowe</b> is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University. Her research is centred around womens reproductive health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, contraception and parenting.<b><br /><br /></b><b>Sonja Olin Lauritzen</b> 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<i>of Medical Technologies and the Life World; The Social Construction of Normality</i> (with L-C Hydén, 2007).
Detailansicht
Children, Health and Well-being
eBook - Policy Debates and Lived Experience, Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
ISBN/EAN: 9781119069539
Umbreit-Nr.: 8373174
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 168 S., 1.45 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 24.06.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM