Harris / Wathen / Wyatt Configuring Health Consumers

Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-29254-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 267 Seiten

Reihe: Health, Technology and Society

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.

SAMANTHA ADAMS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands LUCY APHRAMOR is Honorary Research Fellow in the Applied Research Centre in Health and Lifestyle Interventions, Coventry University, UK MARIA BAKARDJIEVA is Professor and Division Head, Communication, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada LESLIE BELLA is Honorary Research Professor in the School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada LESLIE CARLIN is a Research Fellow in Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK JACQUI GINGRAS is Assistant Professor in the School of Nutrition at Ryerson University in Toronto and a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, Canada MAYA GOLDENBERG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Bachelor of Arts and Science Program, University of Guelph, Canada ELIZABETH GUY is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UK FLIS HENWOOD is Professor of Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UK AUDREY MARSHALL is Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences and a member of the Social Informatics Research Unit, University of Brighton, UK CLARE MOYNIHAN is a Medical Sociologist and Senior Research Fellow and Research Associate at the Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, UK PÄR SALANDER is Professor in the Department of Social Work, Umeå University, Sweden PETER SALMON is Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK HELEN SMITH is Professor of Primary Care at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK PHILIPPA SPOEL is Associate Professor of English at Laurentian University, Canada TIFFANY VEINOT is Assistant Professor in the School of Information, with a cross-appointment at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, USA CORINNE WEISGERBER is Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, USA SARAH WILCOX is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Sarah Lawrence College in New York, USA

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, R.

Wathen, N.

Wyatt, S.