(eBook PDF) Health and Society: Critical Perspectives

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199015279
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199015276
• Author: James Gillett; Gavin J. Andrews; Mat Savelli

Current and comprehensive, Health and Society brings together fourteen original chapters to provide a compelling interdisciplinary introduction to the field of health studies. Exploring the social, cultural, political, and cultural dimensions of health, illness, and health care, this text encourages students to examine how health and health care are socially and culturally constructed; what ideologies, principles, and powers underpin health and healthcare; and the future health challenges we face as a society.

Table contents:

1 | Introduction to Critical Health Studies

2 | Disciplinarity in Health Studies

3 | Health as a Social Construction

4 | Cultures and Meanings of Health

5 | Identity, Intersectionality, and Health

6 | Politics, Social Justice, and Health

7 | Globalization and Health

8 | Modern Biomedical Culture

9 | Health Care Systems, Public and Private

10 | Social Determinants of Health

11 | The Re-emergence of Other Healing Paradigms

12 | Consumerism, Health, and Health Care

13 | Technology

14 | Ethical Issues in Health and Health Care

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