The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated BodyIn this reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies, Deborah Lupton explores public health and health promotion using contemporary sociocultural and political theory, particularly that building on Foucault′s writings on subjectivity, embodiment and power relations. The author examines the implications of the new social theories for the study of health promotion and health communication to analyze the symbolic nature of public health practices, and explores their underlying meanings and assumptions. |
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... emotions of the potentially recalcitrant flesh. The mind/body dualism is linked to others that distinguish reason from passion, outside from inside, depth from surface, reality from appearance, culture from nature, humanity from ...
... emotions of the potentially recalcitrant flesh. The mind/body dualism is linked to others that distinguish reason from passion, outside from inside, depth from surface, reality from appearance, culture from nature, humanity from ...
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... emotions and behaviours by their hormonal systems, their uteruses and ovaries (Laqueur, 1987; Moscucci, 1990). This ideology is still evident in discourses around the pregnant or premenstrual woman today, whose behaviour is popularly ...
... emotions and behaviours by their hormonal systems, their uteruses and ovaries (Laqueur, 1987; Moscucci, 1990). This ideology is still evident in discourses around the pregnant or premenstrual woman today, whose behaviour is popularly ...
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... emotion, desire, pleasure and the unconscious in negotiating the imperatives of public health and health promotion, as well as the influence of such social structural factors as gender and social class. Chapter 1 sketches a history of ...
... emotion, desire, pleasure and the unconscious in negotiating the imperatives of public health and health promotion, as well as the influence of such social structural factors as gender and social class. Chapter 1 sketches a history of ...
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... emotions and anxieties invested in practices of the self at the conscious and the unconscious levels, and explores the ways in which health promotional imperatives paradoxically incite 'sinful' pleasures at the same time as they seek to ...
... emotions and anxieties invested in practices of the self at the conscious and the unconscious levels, and explores the ways in which health promotional imperatives paradoxically incite 'sinful' pleasures at the same time as they seek to ...
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... emotions and abstract concepts such as morals, ideals, liberty, sentiments, love, conscience, instincts and how they emerge and reemerge in different roles or are absent at certain moments. The histories written by social ...
... emotions and abstract concepts such as morals, ideals, liberty, sentiments, love, conscience, instincts and how they emerge and reemerge in different roles or are absent at certain moments. The histories written by social ...
Contents
Contemporary Health Promotion | |
Risk Discourse and Diagnostic Testing | |
the Mass Media and Advertising | |
Bodies Pleasures and the Practices of the Self | |
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