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Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice
. Ed(S): Mathar, Thomas; Jansen, Yvonne J. F. M.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Mathar, Thomas; Jansen, Yvonne J. F. M. Num Pages: 228 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: MBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being "at risk", how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and ... Read more
The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being "at risk", how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837613025
SKU
V9783837613025
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About . Ed(S): Mathar, Thomas; Jansen, Yvonne J. F. M.
Tom Mathar is a PhD-student in the Research Cluster »Preventive Self« based at the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research interests lie in the field of Social Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies including telemedicine and telecare, health policy and politics, innovation in health science and technology. He teaches »Health & Social Policy« at HFH-Hamburg ... Read more
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