商品簡介
Bringing together new and leading scholar in the field of children's health and illness, this book is the first to demonstrate 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
Children, Health and Well-being addresses three cross-cutting themes. The first theme illustrates the significance and pervasive Influence of policy and discourse in shaping understandings of children's lives. The second theme focuses on health policy in action by looking at interactions between professionals, parents and children. The final theme highlights children's role as healthcare actors, focusing on the lived experience of children. Taken together, the themes encourage critical reflection on contemporary and culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children's health
The book furthers theoretical understandings of the sociology of children's health and illness and encourages productive debate amongst a wide audience, including academics, policymakers and healthcare professionals. The collection goes some way to seriously begin the important process of addressing the migration of child health from the margins into mainstream sociology of health and illness
作者簡介
Geraldine Brady is a Senior Research Fellow at Coventry University, tier research engages with policy and medicalised discourses that shape ideas about children's health and behaviour. She is Co-convenor, with Pam Lowe, of BSA's West Midlands Medical Sociology Group.
Pam Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University. Her research centred around women's reproductive health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, contraception and parenting.
Sonja online Lauritzen is Professor Emerita of Education at Stockholm University. She has a research interest in health surveillance, the construction of normality and parental understandings of child health. She is the editor of Medical Technologies and the Life World: The Social Construction of normality (with L.-C. Hyden, 2007).
