Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice : : How Patients' Health Practices are Rationalised, Reconceptualised and Reorganised / / ed. by Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen, Thomas Mathar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Beck, Stefan,; Dupret Søndergaard, Katia,; Fletcher, Isabel,; Huijer, Marli,; Jansen, Yvonne J.F.M.,; Jonvallen, Petra,; Mathar, Tom,; Moreira, Tiago,
• HerausgeberIn: Jansen, Yvonne J.F.M.,; Mathar, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice --; Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice --; Will the Entire Population be Overweight by 2230? Common Sense, Scientific Consensus and the ›Obesity Epidemic‹ --; Prevention as a Side Effect? Distributing Trial Participants in a Pharmaceutical Drug Trial --; Configuring Professional Identity – a Way to Renegotiate Good Care --; Preferences versus Capabilities: How to Improve the (Future) Quality of Life for Women with Abled and Disabled Children --; The Taming of Chance and the Actual Practice of Prevention; Rationalised Prevention and ›the Social‹ --; Body-Identity Trajectories of Preventive.Selves++ --; Epilogue: Translating Experience into Biomedical Assemblages. Observations on European Forms of (Imagined) Participatory Agency in Healthcare --; List of Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839413029; 9783110638721; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110463415; 9783110463392
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839413029?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen, Thomas Mathar.

The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being »at risk«, how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and health promotion practitioners, public health policy-makers and researchers.