Brady / Lowe / Olin Lauritzen Children, Health and Well-being

Policy Debates and Lived Experience
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-119-06953-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs

This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstratethe importance of research with children and from a childperspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning andimpact of health and illness in children's lives.
* Demonstrates the importance of research with childrenand research from a child perspective, in order to fully understandthe meaning and impact of health and illness in children'slives
* Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policyand its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing andunderstanding children's health
* Brings together new and leading scholars in the field ofchildren's health and illness
* Moves the highly important issue of children's healthinto the mainstream sociology of health and illness

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brady, Geraldine

Lowe, Pam

Olin Lauritzen, Sonja

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors vii
1 Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction 1
Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe and Sonja Olin Lauritzen
2 Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental-health-promoting interventions 13
Disa Bergnehr and Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
3 Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the child 27
Pam Lowe, Ellie Lee and Jan Macvarish
4 Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta 41
Gillian M. Martin
5 'You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day . . . I saw it on TV': Children's constructions of play in the context of Canadian public health discourse of playing for health. 55
Stephanie A. Alexander, Caroline Fusco and Katherine L. Frohlich
6 Parents' experiences of diagnostic processes of young children in Norwegian day-care institutions 69
Terese Wilhelmsen and Randi Dyblie Nilsen
7 The meaning of a label for teenagers negotiating identity: experiences with autism spectrum disorder 83
Lise Mogensen and Jan Mason
8 What am I 'living' with? Growing up with HIV in Uganda and Zimbabwe 98
Sarah Bernays, Janet Seeley, Tim Rhodes and Zivai Mupambireyi
9 Food, risk and place: agency and negotiations of young people with food allergy 112
Marie-Louise Stjerna
10 Negotiating pain: the joint construction of a child's bodily sensation 126
Laura Jenkins
11 Understanding inter-generational relations: the case of health maintenance by children 140
Berry Mayall
Index 153

Über Autor(innen)

Geraldine Brady is a Senior Research Fellow at CoventryUniversity. Her research engages with policy and medicaliseddiscourses that shape ideas about children's health andbehaviour. She is Co-convenor, with Pam Lowe, of BSA's WestMidlands Medical Sociology Group.
Pam Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at AstonUniversity. Her research is centred around women'sreproductive health, with a particular interest in pregnancy,contraception and parenting.
Sonja Olin Lauritzen is Professor Emerita of Educationat Stockholm University. She has a research interest in healthsurveillance, the construction of normality and parentalunderstandings of child health. She is the editor of MedicalTechnologies and the Life World; The Social Construction ofNormality (with L-C Hydén, 2007).