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Health / Mildred Blaxter.

Title
Health / Mildred Blaxter.
Author
Blaxter, Mildred
Publication
Cambridge : Polity, c2010.

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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
  • Social medicine
  • Health
  • Gezondheid
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Sociology, Medical
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