Beyond Health: Postmodernism and Embodiment - Hardcover

Fox, Nick J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853434698 ISBN 13: 9781853434693

Publisher: Free Association Books, 1999

Synopsis

This study applies poststructuralist and postmodern ideas to issues of health and health care to provide a radical re-think of how health is to be understood. It offers a perspective in which health is seen as an affirmation of potential rather than a narrow biopsychosocial construct. The author develops his notion of archehealth, providing an account of a wide range of post-structuralist and postmodern theoretical perspectives and their relevance to the field of health. The book is divided into three sections; the first section explores issues of power and control in health settings; the second loooks ta resistance to such power and control; the final section addresses ways in which post-sztructuralist and postmodern approaches may be used as research methodology. In each chapter the author explains and apllies a selection of theoretical perspectives. These include Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari, Cixous, Haraway, Kristeva, Beck, Barthes, Tyler, Landow, Bauman, Cascardi, Baudrillard and Atkinson.

About this title

From the Publisher

Dr Nick Fox is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, and has taught sociology as applied to health and illness at undergraduate and graduate level for ten years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853434698
• ISBN 13: 9781853434693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224