Book Details
Orange Code:28009
Paperback:169 pages
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Sections:
1. From health behaviours to health practices: an introduction Simon Cohn2. Actors, patients and agency: a recent history David Armstrong3. A socially situated approach to inform ways to improve health and wellbeing4. A relational approach to health practices: towards transcending the agency-structure divide5. Environmental justice and health practices: understanding how health inequities arise at the local level6. Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities7. Behaviour change and social blinkers? The role of sociology in trials of self-management behaviour in chronic conditions8. Thinking about changing mobility practices: how a social practice approach can help9. Providers’ constructions of pregnant and early parenting women who use substances10. Staying ‘in the zone’ but not passing the ‘point of no return’: embodiment, gender and drinking in mid-life11. Complexities and contingencies conceptualised: towards a model of reproductive navigation12. Sustained multiplicity in everyday cholesterol reduction: repertoires and practices in talk about ‘healthy living’13. Enjoy your food: on losing weight and taking pleasure
Description:
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 in global health agendas
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