Imperative of Health - Public Health and the Regulated Body

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Lupton is SHARP professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Center for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Center and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), and Data Selves (Polity, 2019). She is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an honorary doctor of social science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen. Klappentext `A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education "truths"' - Choice Zusammenfassung `A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education "truths"' - Choice Inhaltsverzeichnis Governing the Masses The Emergence of the Public Health Movement Technologies of Health Contemporary Health Promotion and Public Health Taming Uncertainty Risk Discourse and Diagnostic Testing Communicating Health The Mass Media and Advertising in Health Promotion Bodies, Pleasures and the Practices of the Self

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Lupton, Deborah Professor Lupton, Lupton Deborah
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.1995
• EAN: 9780803979352
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7935-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & social sciences, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Health systems & services, Public health and preventive medicine, Society and Social Sciences, Health systems and services, Health Communication;Sociology of Health & Illness