| Description |
x, 195 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Sociology of health and illness monograph series |
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Sociology of health and illness monograph series.
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| Contents |
1. Social movements in health : an introduction / Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski -- 2. Medical modernisation, scientific research fields and the epistemic politics of health social movements / David J. Hess -- 3. The dynamic interplay between Western medicine and the complementary and alternative medicine movement : how activists perceive a range of responses from physicians and hospitals / Melinda Goldner -- 4. Health consumer groups in the UK : a new social movement? / Judith Allsop, Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott -- 5. Regenerating movements : embryonic stem cells and the politics of potentiality / Chris Ganchoff -- 6. Uneasy allies : pro-choice physicians, feminist health activists and the struggle for abortion rights / Carole Joffe, Tracy Weitz and Clare Stacey -- 7. Advocating voice : organisational, historical and social milieux of the Alzheimer's disease movement / Renee L. Beard -- 8. Framing as a cultural resource in health social movements : funding activism and the breast cancer movement in the US 1990-1993 / Emily S. Kolker -- 9. Breast cancer in two regimes : the impact of social movements on illness experience / Maren Klawiter |
| Summary |
"Health social movements (HSMs) are an innovative and powerful form of political action aimed at transforming the health care system, modifying people's experience of illness, and addressing broader social determinants of health and disease in diverse communities. This book represents the first collection of research on HSMs. It brings together the study of health and illness with social movement theory in order to establish a basis for the study of health social movements. Contributions cover both health social movements focused on diseases such as Alzheimer's and breast cancer, and issue-based HSMs such as the pro-choice movement, the movement for complementary and alternative medicine, and movements around stem cell research. Taken together, they illustrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to studying HSMs."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Reprinted from: Sociology of health and illness, v. 26, no. 6 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Health care reform.
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Health -- Political aspects.
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Health -- Social aspects.
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Social movements.
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Health Care Reform.
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Consumer Organizations.
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Social Change.
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Sociology, Medical.
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| Author |
Brown, Phil.
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Zavestoski, Stephen.
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| LC no. |
2005298024 |
| ISBN |
1405124490 paperback |
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