PHIL BROWN / Stephen Zavestoski (eds.)

Social Movements in Health

Herausgeber: Brown, Phil; Zavestoski, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Health social movements (HSMs) are an innovative and powerful form of political action aimed at transforming the health care system, modifying people's experience of illness, and addressing broader social determinants of health and disease in diverse communities. This book represents the first collection of research on HSMs. It brings together the study of health and illness with social movement theory in order to establish a basis for the study of health social movements. Contributions cover both health social movements focused on diseases such as Alzheimer's and breast cancer, and issue-based HSMs such as the pro-choice movement, the movement for complementary and alternative medicine, and movements around stem cell research. Taken together, they illustrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to studying HSMs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9781405124492
• ISBN-10: 1405124490
• Artikelnr.: 21957419

Autorenporträt

Phil Brown is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brown University. He is the author of No Safe Place Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action (1990) and co-editor of Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine (2000). Stephen Zavestoski is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco. His work has appeared in journals such as Science, Technology and Human Values, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Science Computer Review, and Organization and Environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.

1. Social Movements in Health: An Introduction: Phil Brown andStephen Zavestoski.

2. Medical Modernisation, Scientific Research Fields and theEpistemic Politics of Health Social Movements: David Hess.

3. The Dynamic Interplay Between Western Medicine andComplimentary and Alternative Medicine Movement: MelindaGoldner.

4. Health COnsumer Groups: A New Social Movement?: Judith Alsop,Kathryn Jones, and Rob Baggott.

5. Regenerating Movements: Embryonic Stem Cells, SocialMovements, and the Politics of Potentiality: Chris Ganchoff.

6. Uneasy Allies: Pro-choice Physicians, Feminist HealthActivists, and the Struggle for Abortion Rights: Carole Joffe andTracy Weitz.

7. Advocating Voice: Organisational, Historical and SocialMilieux of the Alzheimer's Disease Movement: Renee Beard.

8. Framing as a Cultural Resource in Health Social Movements:Funding Activism and the Breast Cancer Movement in the US1990-1993: Emily Kolker.

9. Breast Cancer in Two Regimes: The Impact of Social Movementson Illness Experience: Maren Klawiter.

Index.