Emily Hansen, Gary Easthope

Lifestyle in Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

More and more emphasis is being placed on individuals to take responsibility for their own health. Lifestyle as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly common in western societies, particularly for chronic conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and adult onset diabetes. This book explores the lifestyle paradigm, which has resulted in social factors being included in medical and lay explanations of health and illness. Drawing on evidence-based analysis using original research the book demonstrates that lifestyle has a complex, shifting and uncertain place in professional medical accounts of the causes of both health and illness. As a new exploration of the subject it should be essential reading on medical sociology courses. The book has a strong theoretical base and is truly cross-national.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134249442
• Artikelnr.: 38245557

Autorenporträt

Gary Easthope is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has eclectic research interests and has published books, book chapters and articles on education, social research methods, ethnicity and health, disability, the wilderness movement, drug use and alternative medicine.

Emily Hansen is a Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include medical sociology, medical anthropology, general practice and primary health care.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Lifestyle as a Medical Explanatory Model 2. Is the Medical Lifestyle
Approach to Maintaining Health and Preventing Disease Successful? 3.
Assumptions Underlying the Medical Approach to Lifestyle 4. Methodology and
Research Methods 5. Lifestyle in Medical and Lay Texts 6. Doctors'
Understanding of Lifestyle 7. Reflections on Lifestyle in Medicine