The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk

Description

Health promotion and the new public health are now central to health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. Issues examined include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalization and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes.

"The book makes fascinating reading--not because it offers a complete discourse on health promotion from a sociological perpsective, but more because it brings together all the facts and follies, all the reational arguments and the prejudices, and all of the inconsistencies of some of the policies advanced in the name of health promotion, together with the arguments used by those who have shaped the ideological debate on the health promotion movement.... Th is book offers a sound bais on whihc to reassess thge current position of health promotion.."
-"Lnacelot