Umfang:
1 online resource (168 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781119069546
Serie:
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
Inhalt:
Intro -- Children, Health and Well-being -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Connecting a sociology of childhood perspective with the study of child health, illness and wellbeing: introduction -- Themes of this issue -- Theme 1: situating children within health policy -- Theme 2: practices of childrens health and wellbeing -- Theme 3 - Children as health actors -- Introduction to the collection -- References -- 2 Where is the child? A discursive exploration of the positioning of children in research on mental-health-promoting interventions -- Introduction -- Conceptualising children's health and agency -- The study -- Data and sample procedure -- Analytical procedure -- Results -- The informing child -- Forming the child -- The (de)contextualised child -- Concluding discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- 3 Biologising parenting: neuroscience discourse, English social and public health policy and understandings of the child -- Introduction -- The rise of 'neurocultural' claims -- 'Neurocultural' claims and childrens brains -- Policy and the developing child -- Methodology -- Mind-less brains -- Brain as child -- Parental determinism -- Writing children off, holding parents to account -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Obesity in question: understandings of body shape, self and normalcy among children in Malta -- Introduction -- Theoretical perspectives and aims -- Methodology -- Sample -- Context -- Data collection -- Researcher impact -- Ethics -- Analysis -- Findings -- Mothers -- Mothers and others -- Mothers, others and 'me' -- Discussion and concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 'You have to do 60 minutes of physical activity per day…I saw it on TV': Childrens constructions of play in the context of Canadian public health discourse of playing for health -- Introduction.
Anmerkung:
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781119069515
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781119069515
Sprache:
Englisch
