Health and Wellbeing — A Reader

This Reader Documents The Growing Debate About Health And Wellbeing. Some 'new Voices' Speak From Neglected Lay Experiences And Values; Others Are Challenging Medical Perspectives 'from Within'. Competing Perspectives On Health Beseige Familiar Areas Of Everyday Life: Our Bodies, The Home And Workplace. Health Goals Are Increasingly Debated On Wider Agendas In Social Planning: In The Marketing Of Lifestyles, In Transport Policies, And In The Appraisal Of Alternative Futures. But Prospects For Health Are Bound Up With Social Equity, International Justice, And Global Sustainability - As Well As With The 'journey Of Hope' Of The Individuals Who Struggle To Survive. 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