Description |
xii, 257 pages : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction : criticising health psychology / M. Murray -- Pt. 1. Theory and health psychology -- A sound mind in a sound body : a critical historical analysis of health psychology / H. J. Stam -- Suffering / A. Radley -- Health and illness : a hermeneutical phenomenological approach / R. Kugelmann -- Pt. 2. Context of health psychology -- Rights to health, freedom from illness : a life and death matter / D. F. Marks -- Feminist contributions to critical health psychology / S. Wilkinson -- Culture, empowerment & health / M. MacLachlan -- Pt. 3. Research methods and Heald psychology -- Qualitative research, reflexitivity and context / K. Chamberlain -- Qualitative research as social transformation / U. Flick -- Discourse analysis and health psychology / C. Willig -- Pt. 4. Health psychology practice -- Challenging narratives and social representations of health, illness and injury / M. Murray |
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Using participatory action research to address community health issues; M. Brydon-Miller health psychology and community action / C. Campbell -- Endpiece : towards a critical health psychology / M. Murray |
Summary |
"This book provides an introduction to key theoretical and methodological issues in developing a critical health psychology. It considers alternatives to the positivist assumptions underlying traditional health psychology, and proposes a reconstructed discipline that on the one hand delves into the experience of health and illness, and on the other engages with the social and political aspects of the subject. Containing carefully edited contributions from key thinkers in the field, it provides a coherent critique of mainstream health psychology."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Clinical health psychology.
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Health -- Psychological aspects.
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Medicine and psychology.
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Author |
Murray, M., 1952-
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LC no. |
2003069133 |
ISBN |
0333990331 |
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033399034X paperback |
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