Modern Philosophy - 20th Century, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Medical Ethics, General & Miscellaneous - Medicine, Medical Sociology, Medical Reference, Sociology - General & Miscellaneous, Postmodernism, Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous, Soci
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Overview
Beyond Health applies post-structuralist and post-modernideas 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 arche- health and in doing provides a lucid account of a wide range of post- structuralist and post-modern theoretical perspectives and their relevance to the field of health. DESCRIPTION : Dr Nick Fox is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, and has taught sociology as applied to health and illness at undergraduate and graduate level for ten years.Editorials
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Fox writes about the nomadic project for people with bodies wherever they live, in what turned out not quite to be the planned sequel to his (1993), but a treatment of the very practical issue of embodiment. Aspiring to transcend the conceptualization of embodiment by modern medicine, the caring professions, and other institutions, he suggests that it is possible to have a non-essentialist yet becoming body, not a being-body, not to be trammelled by notions of health and illness. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
December 1, 1999
Publisher
Free Association Books
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781853434693