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The Imperative of Health : Public Health and the Regulated Body.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446265840
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.1
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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.
Summary: À 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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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.

À 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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