The Sociology of Health Promotion: Critical Analyses of Consumption, Lifestyle and Risk

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
TABLES......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
HEALTH PROMOTION AND SOCIOLOGY......Page 13
The institutional context of health promotion......Page 15
Socio-political critiques of health promotion......Page 16
Knowledge, risk and health promotion......Page 17
Health promotion, consumption and lifestyle......Page 18
CONCLUSION......Page 19
Part I The institutional context of health promotion......Page 20
THE EMERGENCE OF HEALTH PROMOTION......Page 22
BEYOND THE UNITED KINGDOM......Page 24
RHETORIC RATHER THAN REALITY......Page 27
HEALTH PROMOTION AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION......Page 28
CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES......Page 30
CONCLUDING COMMENT......Page 31
THE 1990 HEALTH PROMOTION CONTRACT......Page 34
One-stop services......Page 36
Cash and competition......Page 37
Product development and marketing......Page 38
From products to programmes......Page 42
More management......Page 43
Risk......Page 44
NOTES......Page 46
Part II Socio-political critiques of health promotion......Page 48
DISCIPLINARY DISTINCTIONS AND HEALTH PROMOTION......Page 50
Structural......Page 53
Surveillance......Page 56
Consumption......Page 57
THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH PROMOTION: TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL MAP......Page 59
CONCLUSION......Page 65
NOTES......Page 66
INTRODUCTION......Page 68
INDIVIDUALLY FOCUSED HEALTH PROMOTION......Page 69
COLLECTIVELY FOCUSED HEALTH PROMOTION......Page 73
TOWARDS A FEMINIST HEALTH PROMOTION?......Page 77
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 78
Assimilation, integration, multiculturalism......Page 80
Materialist perspectives......Page 83
THE CURRENT CONTEXT......Page 84
DEVELOPING ANTI-RACIST HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGIES......Page 85
CONCLUSIONS......Page 86
MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM......Page 88
HEALTH PROMOTION, POSTMODERNISM AND VESTIGES OF MODERNISM......Page 89
CRITIQUE......Page 91
SOME THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 95
CONCLUSIONS......Page 98
SOME SHARED THEMES IN CRITIQUES OF HEALTH PROMOTION......Page 102
DIFFERENT CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 106
CONCLUSION......Page 109
Part III Knowledge, risk and health promotion......Page 112
INTRODUCTION......Page 114
ACTIVE SMOKING AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE......Page 116
PASSIVE SMOKING–EARLY THOUGHTS......Page 119
MAINSTREAM AND SIDESTREAM SMOKE......Page 121
THE STYLISATION OF VISIBILITY......Page 123
NOTE......Page 125
RISK AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION......Page 126
MOUNTAIN ACCIDENTS–AN EXAMPLE......Page 128
HEALTH PROMOTION: THE REPORTED CONFLICT BETWEEN LAY AND PROFESSIONAL VIEWS......Page 129
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT ACCIDENTS......Page 133
Unpredictability......Page 134
Moral Neutrality......Page 136
PREVENTION......Page 138
DISCUSSION......Page 140
CONCLUSION......Page 141
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 142
CHANCE AND MODERNITY......Page 144
ACCIDENTS......Page 145
HEALTH PROMOTION AND ACCIDENTS......Page 150
NOTES......Page 154
METHOD......Page 156
A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK......Page 157
ANTI-RATIONAL DISCOURSES......Page 159
A GOOD DENTIST......Page 161
THE MORAL PATIENT......Page 163
CONCLUSION......Page 164
NOTES......Page 165
Part IV Health promotion, consumption and lifestyle......Page 168
INTRODUCTION......Page 170
MORE THAN A HAIRCUT......Page 171
WEIGHTY BUSINESS......Page 173
PLASTIC MONEY......Page 178
PLAYBOY AS A TAX DEDUCTION......Page 184
NOTES......Page 185
INTRODUCTION......Page 186
POSITIVE AGEING......Page 187
OLD AGE AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM......Page 192
PROVISIONAL CONCLUSION......Page 198
INTRODUCTION......Page 200
BACKGROUND......Page 201
FROM HEALTH TO WELLBEING......Page 202
THE POLITICS OF LIFESTYLE......Page 205
LIFESTYLES AND HEALTH PROMOTION......Page 210
CONCLUDING COMMENTS......Page 212
NOTES......Page 213
HEALTH PROMOTION AS LATE MODERN MEDICINE......Page 214
THE CHANGING SICK ROLE AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘EPIDEMIOLOGICAL’ CLINIC......Page 215
HEALTH PROMOTION, CONSUMPTION AND SELF-IDENTITY......Page 217
Drugs of distinction: drug use in consumer culture......Page 221
Middle class consumption patterns......Page 226
CONCLUDING COMMENTS......Page 228
NOTES......Page 229
References......Page 230
Name index......Page 252
Subject index......Page 258