Configuring Health Consumers

Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility

R Harris editor N Wathen editor S Wyatt editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '10

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This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.

'The vignettes of research here are important and timely and will offer some useful entry points for students and scholars seeking to get a flavour of some key debates in current medical sociology.' - Sociology of Health & Illness

ISBN: 9781349321582

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

267 pages

1st ed. 2010