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TITLE: BEYOND
HEALTH: Essays on Control,
Resistance and Renewal AUTHOR: Fox, Nick ISBN hb: 1 85343 468 X ISBN pb: 1 85343 469 8 PAGES: 224 LIST PRICE hb: £35.00 ($55.00) LIST PRICE pb: £14.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: October 1999
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TITLE: BEYOND
HEALTH: Essays on Control,
Resistance and Renewal AUTHOR: Fox, Nick ISBN hb: 1 85343 468 X ISBN pb: 1 85343 469 8 PAGES: 224 LIST PRICE hb: £35.00 ($55.00) LIST PRICE pb: £14.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: October 1999
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has become the new religion, and the caring professions the new priesthood.
Beyond Health applies post-structuralist and post-modern 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 arche-health and in so doing provides
a lucid account of a wide range of post-structuralist and post-modern theoretical
perspectives and their relevance to the field of health.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 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.
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