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Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice How Patients' Health Practices are Rationalised, Reconceptualised and Reorganised

The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapter...

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Otros Autores: Mathar, Thomas (Editor , Herausgeber), Jansen, Yvonne J.F.M (Editor , Herausgeber)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2015
Colección:VerKörperungen/MatteRealities - Perspektiven empirischer Wissenschaftsforschung 3
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  • Frontmatter 1CONTENTS 5Acknowledgements 7Introduction: Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice 9Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer's Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice 29Will the Entire Population be Overweight by 2230? Common Sense, Scientific Consensus and the ›Obesity Epidemic‹ 53Prevention as a Side Effect? Distributing Trial Participants in a Pharmaceutical Drug Trial 83Configuring Professional Identity
  • a Way to Renegotiate Good Care 105Preferences versus Capabilities: How to Improve the (Future) Quality of Life for Women with Abled and Disabled Children 129The Taming of Chance and the Actual Practice of Prevention; Rationalised Prevention and ›the Social‹ 147Body-Identity Trajectories of Preventive.Selves++ 171Epilogue: Translating Experience into Biomedical Assemblages. Observations on European Forms of (Imagined) Participatory Agency in Healthcare 195List of Contributors 223