Research Catalog
Health / Mildred Blaxter.
- Title
- Health / Mildred Blaxter.
- Author
- Blaxter, Mildred
- Publication
- Cambridge : Polity, c2010.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RA418 .B5745 2010 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- vii, 183 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the key debates surrounding the concept of health today. It discusses how health is defined, constructed, experienced and acted out in contemporary developed societies, drawing on a range of empirical data and theoretical approaches.
- Series Statement
- Key concepts
- Subject
- Note
- Previous ed.: 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- How is health defined? -- How is health constructed? -- How is health embodied and experienced? -- How is health enacted? -- How is health related to social systems? -- Contemporary change in the meaning of health.
- ISBN
- 9780745648453 (hbk.)
- 0745648452 (hbk.)
- 0745648460 (pbk.)
- 9780745648460 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 444413328
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library