Health and Wellbeing: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-5
Community Involvement in Health Promotion: Progress or Panacea?....Pages 6-13
Neighbourhood Health Projects — Some New Approaches to Health and Community Work in Parts of the United Kingdom....Pages 14-22
Caribbean Home Remedies and their Importance for Black Women’s Health Care in Britain....Pages 23-33
From Psychometric Scales to Cultural Perspectives....Pages 34-43
The Disappearance of the Sick Man from Medical Cosmology 1770–1870....Pages 44-54
From Clinical Gaze to Regime of Total Health....Pages 55-67
Mental Health for All....Pages 68-75
Genetics — A Philosophy of Perfection?....Pages 76-83
Concepts in Alternative Medicine....Pages 84-93
The Myth of Alternative Health....Pages 94-101
The Setting for a New Public Health....Pages 102-110
Maternity: Letters from Working Women....Pages 111-118
The Limits of the Professional Imagination....Pages 119-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-132
A Cultural Account of ‘Health’: Control, Release, and the Social Body....Pages 133-143
The Expressive Style of a Motor-bike Culture....Pages 144-151
The Myth of the Perfect Body....Pages 152-157
The Social Construction of Child-rearing....Pages 158-164
Policing the Family? Health Visiting and the Public Surveillance of Private Behavior....Pages 165-173
The Health of the Homeless....Pages 174-182
Familist Ideology and Possessive Individualism....Pages 183-193
Front Matter....Pages 129-132
Women in Banana Republics....Pages 194-201
The Sense of Coherence as a Determinant of Health....Pages 202-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-217
Myth in Cigarette Advertising and Health Promotion....Pages 218-227
Lifestyles and Health....Pages 228-236
Social Goals for Transport Policy....Pages 237-247
The Public Health Implications of Private Cars....Pages 248-256
Sex, Drink and Fast Cars....Pages 257-259
The Changing Boundaries of Health....Pages 260-271
The Impact of Industrialization on World Health....Pages 272-279
Resources for a Journey of Hope....Pages 280-286
Possible Futures for Work....Pages 287-295
Towards a Green and Healthy Future....Pages 296-302
The Return of the Spirit....Pages 303-310
The Space Crone....Pages 311-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-322