The Imperative of Health

`A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education "truths"' - Choice

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Lupton is SHARP professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Center for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Center and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), and Data Selves (Polity, 2019). She is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an honorary doctor of social science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen. Klappentext A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education "truths"' - Choice Zusammenfassung A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education "truths"' - Choice Inhaltsverzeichnis Governing the Masses The Emergence of the Public Health Movement Technologies of Health Contemporary Health Promotion and Public Health Taming Uncertainty Risk Discourse and Diagnostic Testing Communicating Health The Mass Media and Advertising in Health Promotion Bodies, Pleasures and the Practices of the Self

Autorentext

Deborah Lupton is SHARP professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Center for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Center and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), and Data Selves (Polity, 2019). She is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an honorary doctor of social science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen.

Inhalt

Governing the Masses
The Emergence of the Public Health Movement
Technologies of Health
Contemporary Health Promotion and Public Health
Taming Uncertainty
Risk Discourse and Diagnostic Testing
Communicating Health
The Mass Media and Advertising in Health Promotion
Bodies, Pleasures and the Practices of the Self