The Imperative of Health : Public Health and the Regulated Body.
Title:
The Imperative of Health : Public Health and the Regulated Body.
Author:
Lupton, Deborah.
ISBN:
9781446265840
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Governing the Masses: the Emergence of the Public Health Movement -- Chapter 2 - Technologies of Health: Contemporary Health Promotion and Public Health -- Chapter 3 - Taming Uncertainty: Risk Discourse and Diagnostic Testing -- Chapter 4 - Communicating Health: the Mass Media and Advertising in Health Promotion -- Chapter 5 - Bodies, Pleasures and the Practices of the Self -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
`A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education "truths"' - Choice.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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