Children, health and well-being : policy debates and lived experience

Content: 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