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  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH PROMOTION
    ROBIN BUNTON
    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 ...

    $1,380.00

  • HEALTH PROMOTION
    BUNTON, ROBIN / MACDONALD, GORDON / MACDONALD, GORDON
    Health promotion is an increasingly central tenet in health professionals' lives. It has come into the public eye as the subject of party politics and policy, but where does the movement come from? This book brings together views from a range of subjects, some not always associated with health promotion, such as marketing or communication theory. Others, such as social policy o...

    $1,540.00

  • THE NEW GENETICS AND THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH
    ROBIN BUNTON / ALAN PETERSEN
    The rapid advancement of genetic science, fuelled by the Human Genome Project and other related initiatives, promises a new kind of public health practice based on the pre-detection of disease according to calculations of genetic risk. This book by two well-known sociologists: * explores the implications of the new genetics for public health as a body of knowledge and a domain ...

    $860.00

  • FOUCAULT, HEALTH AND MEDICINE
    BUNTON, ROBIN / PETERSEN, ALAN
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology...

    $1,540.00