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From Health Behaviours to Health Practices: Critical Perspectives
Simon Cohn
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Description for From Health Behaviours to Health Practices: Critical Perspectives
Paperback. Presenting a range of contributions from international scholars that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour, this volume argues for a socially situated approach to explain what people do and why in relation to their health and experiences of illness. Editor(s): Cohn, Simon. Series: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 8. Weight in Grams: 276.
A wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and conduct research into what people do and don’t do, in relation to their health and experiences of illness.
- Presents a collection of international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour
- Includes a wide range of both theoretical perspectives and empirical cases
- Reasserts the unique contribution social sciences can make to health research
- Challenges assumptions about the usefulness of the concept of health behaviour
- A timely publication given the rise of chronic and lifestyle diseases and the resulting changes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781118898390
SKU
V9781118898390
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About Simon Cohn
Simon Cohn is a Reader in Medical Anthropology at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on issues related to diagnosis, contested conditions and chronic illness in the UK and other high-income societies. With a strong commitment to contemporary social theory, Cohn is interested in ways in which innovative social science can shape aspects of medical ... Read more
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