The Imperative of Health : Public Health and the Regulated Body / Deborah Lupton.

`A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education ""truths""' - Choice.

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Main Author: Lupton, Deborah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1
  • Governing the Masses: the Emergence of the Public Health Movement; Chapter 2
  • Technologies of Health: Contemporary Health Promotion and Public Health; Chapter 3
  • Taming Uncertainty: Risk Discourse and Diagnostic Testing; Chapter 4
  • Communicating Health: the Mass Media and Advertising in Health Promotion; Chapter 5
  • Bodies, Pleasures and the Practices of the Self; Conclusion; References; Index.