| Description |
1 online resource |
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Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph Series |
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Sociology of health and illness monograph series
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| Contents |
Series; Title page; Copyright; Notes on contributors; 1 Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction; Themes of this issue; Introduction to the collection; References; 2 Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental-health-promoting interventions; Introduction; Conceptualising children's health and agency; The study; Results; Concluding discussion; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix A |
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3 Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the childIntroduction; The rise of 'neurocultural' claims; 'Neurocultural' claims and children's brains; Policy and the developing child; Methodology; Mind-less brains; Brain as child; Parental determinism; Writing children off, holding parents to account; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta; Introduction; Theoretical perspectives and aims; Methodology; Analysis; Findings; Mothers and others |
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Mothers, others and 'me'Discussion and concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 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; Introduction; Theoretical framework; Methodology; Analysis; Discussion: shaping the actively playing child; Acknowledgments; Note; References; 6 Parents' experiences of diagnostic processes of young children in Norwegian day-care institutions; Introduction; Theoretical approach; The methodological approach |
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Adapting to children constructed as differentParental critique and resistance; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; 7 The meaning of a label for teenagers negotiating identity: experiences with autism spectrum disorder; Introduction; Methodology and methods; Findings; Meanings of the diagnosis of autism at the level of individual personal identity; Meanings of diagnosis for identity at the socio-relational or public level; Meaning of the diagnosis in terms of negotiating impairments; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References |
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8 What am I 'living' with? Growing up with HIV in Uganda and ZimbabweIntroduction; Background; Methods; Findings; Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; 9 Food, risk and place: agency and negotiations of young people with food allergy; Introduction; Method; Management of health risks; Management of social risks in different places; Discussion; Age, accountability and everyday risk management; The relational aspects of agency; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 10 Negotiating pain: the joint construction of a child's bodily sensation; Introduction; Aims; Method; Findings; Discussion |
| Summary |
This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives.-Demonstrates the importance of research with children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives -Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children's health -Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children's health and illness -Moves the highly important issue of children's health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Child welfare.
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Children -- Health and hygiene.
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Child health services.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Child health services
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Child welfare
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Children -- Health and hygiene
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brady, Geraldine M., editor
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Lowe, Pam, editor
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Olin-Lauritzen, Sonja, editor
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| ISBN |
9781119069522 |
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1119069521 |
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9781119069539 |
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111906953X |
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9781119069546 |
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1119069548 |
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