Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe, Sonja Olin Lauritzen

Children, Health and Well-being (eBook, PDF)

Policy Debates and Lived Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children's lives. * Demonstrates 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 * Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children's health * Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children's health and illness * Moves the highly important issue of children's health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119069539
• Artikelnr.: 43191821

Autorenporträt

Geraldine Brady is a Senior Research Fellow at Coventry University. Her 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 is centred around women's reproductive health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, contraception and parenting.

Sonja Olin 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 Hydén, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors vii
1 Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child
health, illness and wellbeing: introduction 1
Geraldine Brady, Pam Lowe and Sonja Olin Lauritzen
2 Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of
children in research on mental-health-promoting interventions 13
Disa Bergnehr and Karin Zetterqvist Nelson
3 Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public
health policy and understandings of the child 27
Pam Lowe, Ellie Lee and Jan Macvarish
4 Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy
among children in Malta 41
Gillian M. Martin
5 'You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day . . . I saw it on
TV': Children's constructions of play in the context of Canadian public
health discourse of playing for health. 55
Stephanie A. Alexander, Caroline Fusco and Katherine L. Frohlich
6 Parents' experiences of diagnostic processes of young children in
Norwegian day-care institutions 69
Terese Wilhelmsen and Randi Dyblie Nilsen
7 The meaning of a label for teenagers negotiating identity: experiences
with autism spectrum disorder 83
Lise Mogensen and Jan Mason
8 What am I 'living' with? Growing up with HIV in Uganda and Zimbabwe 98
Sarah Bernays, Janet Seeley, Tim Rhodes and Zivai Mupambireyi
9 Food, risk and place: agency and negotiations of young people with food
allergy 112
Marie-Louise Stjerna
10 Negotiating pain: the joint construction of a child's bodily sensation
126
Laura Jenkins
11 Understanding inter-generational relations: the case of health
maintenance by children 140
Berry Mayall
Index 153