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Constructions of health and illness : European perspectives
- Title
- Constructions of health and illness : European perspectives / edited by Ian Shaw and Kaisa Kauppinen.
- Publication
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA418.3.E85 C66 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 143 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness. This includes an emphasis upon lay beliefs and the different way understandings of health can impact upon health behaviour. The contributors also examine health knowledge and the interaction and comparison between lay and professional knowledge systems.
- Series Statement
- Global health
- Uniform Title
- Global health.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- miscellanies.
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Miscellanées.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Work of pathologists / Elianne Riska -- Constructing risk / Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward -- Lay understandings of health / Sara O'Sullivan and Anne Stakelum -- Self-rated health in Moscow and Helsinki -- Hannele Palosuo -- Pragmatism, globalism and culturalism / Ruby C.M. Chau and Sam W.K. Yu -- Shifting views of depression / Ilka Kangas -- Construction of lay resistance to vaccination / Pru Hobson-West -- Pain, loss and collective action / Judith Allsop, Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott -- Medicalisation of unhappiness? / Ian Shaw and Louise Woodward.
- ISBN
- 0754632768
- 9780754632764
- LCCN
- 2003065716
- OCLC
- ocm53846641
- 53846641
- SCSB-14655632
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library