Beyond health

Description:

This study applies poststructuralist and postmodern ideas to issues of health and health care to provide a radical re-think of how health is to be understood. It offers a perspective in which health is seen as an affirmation of potential rather than a narrow biopsychosocial construct. The author develops his notion of archehealth, providing an account of a wide range of post-structuralist and postmodern theoretical perspectives and their relevance to the field of health. The book is divided into three sections; the first section explores issues of power and control in health settings; the second loooks ta resistance to such power and control; the final section addresses ways in which post-sztructuralist and postmodern approaches may be used as research methodology. In each chapter the author explains and apllies a selection of theoretical perspectives. These include Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari, Cixous, Haraway, Kristeva, Beck, Barthes, Tyler, Landow, Bauman, Cascardi, Baudrillard and Atkinson.

subjects: Health,  Medical Philosophy,  Postmodernism,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Health,  Social medicine,  Sociological aspects,  Sociological aspects of Health,  Sociology,  Anthropology,  Health psychology,  Social theory,  Health & Fitness,  Medical / Nursing,  Health Care Delivery,  Health/Fitness,  Health - General,  Health Care Issues

People: Nick J Fox

Places: Sheffield,  Adelaide

Times: Present day