The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk [Paperback]

Robin Bunton (Editor), Roger Burrows (Editor), Sarah Nettleton (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415116473 | ISBN-13: 978-0415116473 | Publication Date: August 27, 1995 | Edition: First Edition

Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes. It will be invaluable reading for students, health promoters, public health doctors and academics.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The book makes fascinating reading--not because it offers a complete discourse on health promotion from a sociological perpsective, but more because it brings together all the facts and follies, all the reational arguments and the prejudices, and all of the inconsistencies of some of the policies advanced in the name of health promotion, together with the arguments used by those who have shaped the ideological debate on the health promotion movement.... Th is book offers a sound bais on whihc to reassess thge current position of health promotion..
–Lnacelot

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; First Edition edition (August 27, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415116473
• ISBN-13: 978-0415116473
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,133,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)