Configuring Health Consumers [electronic resource] : Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility /
Harris, R.editor.
Wathen, N.editor.
Wyatt, S.editor.
This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on the Editors and Contributors; 1 Health(y) Citizenship: Technology, Work and Narratives of Responsibility; Part I; 2 In Sickness and in Health: Public and Private Responsibility for Health Care from Bismarck to Obama; 3 Power to the Patient? A Critical Examination of Patient Empowerment Discourses; Part II; 4 Lay Knowledge: The Missing Middle of the Expertise Debates; 5 The Rhetorical Work of Informed Choice in Midwifery: Situated Knowledges and the Negotiation of Health Care Decisions
6 Empowerment, Compliance and the Ethical Subject in Dietetic Work7 Disorder Construction as Lay Work: Examining the Relationship Between Sleep Paralysis Construction and Help-Seeking Behaviours; Part III; 8 Facilitating Patients' Hope Work Through Relationship: A Critique of the Discourse of Autonomy; 9 The Work of Clinical Communication in Cancer Care; 10 Working for the Cure: Challenging Pink Ribbon Activism; Part IV; 11 Impatient on the Net: Exploring the Genres of Internet Use for Health
12 Sourcing the Crowd for Health Experiences: Letting the People Speak or Obliging Voice Through Choice?13 Working (IT) Out Together: Engaging the Community in E-Health Developments for Obesity Management; 14 Working to be Healthy: Empowering Consumers or Citizens?; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
Social policy.
Social medicine.
Sociology.
Medicine.
Economics.
Medicine .
Health.
Social Policy.
Medical Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Popular Science in Economics.
Popular Science in Medicine and Health.