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

by Sarah Nettleton, Roger Burrows, Robin Bunton

Book Overview

Promotion of health has become a central feature of health policy at local, national and international levels, forming part of global health initiatives such as those endorsed by the World Health Organisation. The issues examined in The Sociology of Health Promotion include sociology of risk, the body, consumption, processes of surveillance and normalisation and considerations relating to race and gender in the implementation of health programmes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415116473
• ISBN13: 9780415116473
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"