New Directions in Critical Public Health - Health in Turbulent Times

In an era where debates about public health research, policy, and practice are central to the wider socio-political discourse, this invaluable volume brings together key themes from the last 15 years of critical scholarship in and of public health.

List of contents

Introduction. 1.Political economy of knowledge production. 2.Making evidence: complexity, trials and epistemic justice. 3.Public health, medicalization, and biomedicalization. 4.Keeping the pressure on: critical public health and the social determinants of health inequities. 5.Beyond behaviour: social practices and 'more than human' health. 6.Beyond the state: the health perils of neoliberal globalization. 7.Global health governance, the state, and healthy social movement activism. 8.Conclusion: we are all now (critical) political economists.

About the author

Lindsay McLaren is Professor of Population & Public Health at the University of Calgary, Canada; Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; and co-Editor of Journal of Critical Public Health.
Judith Green is Professor of Sociology in the Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health and the Department of Social & Political Sciences, Philosophy & Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK, and co-Editor of Journal of Critical Public Health.
Ronald Labonté is Professor Emeritus in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Canada; a member of the global People's Health Movement's Steering Council; and co-Editor-in-Chief of Globalization and Health.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Green, Labonte Ronald, Lindsay McLaren, Lindsay Green Mclaren
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.09.2025
• EAN: 9781041103653
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4110365-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Personal & public health, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education