This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children s lives. * Demonstrates the importance of research with children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children s lives * Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children s health * Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children s health and illness * Moves the highly important issue of children s health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness
Geraldine Brady is a Senior Research Fellow at Coventry University. Her research engages with policy and medicalised discourses that shape ideas about children s health and behaviour. She is Co-convenor, with Pam Lowe, of BSA s West Midlands Medical Sociology Group. Pam Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University. Her research is centred around women s reproductive health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, contraception and parenting. Sonja Olin Lauritzen is Professor Emerita of Education at Stockholm University. She has a research interest in health surveillance, the construction of normality and parental understandings of child health. She is the editor of Medical Technologies and the Life World; The Social Construction of Normality (with L-C Hyden, 2007).
Title: Children, Health and Well-being: Policy Debates and Lived Experience (Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs)
Author: Brady, Geraldine
ISBN: 9781119069515
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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication Date: 2015-09-04
Number of Pages: 168
Weight: 0.3584 kg