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.

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 chapter...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]
©2010
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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