{"product_id":"from-health-behaviours-to-health-practices-isbn-9781118898390","title":"From Health Behaviours to Health Practices","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and conduct research into what people do and don’t do, in relation to their health and experiences of illness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a collection of international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a wide range of both theoretical perspectives and empirical cases\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReasserts the unique contribution social sciences can make to health research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChallenges assumptions about the usefulness of the concept of health behaviour\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA timely publication given the rise of chronic and lifestyle diseases and the resulting changes in global health agendas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 From health behaviours to health practices: an introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Cohn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Actors, patients and agency: a recent history 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A socially situated approach to inform ways to improve health and wellbeing 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Horrocks and Sally Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A relational approach to health practices: towards transcending the agency-structure divide 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerry Veenstra and Patrick John Burnett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Environmental justice and health practices: understanding how health inequities arise at the local level 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatherine L. Frohlich and Thomas Abel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFran Baum and Matthew Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Behaviour change and social blinkers? The role of sociology in trials of self-management behavior in chronic conditions 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBie Nio Ong, Anne Rogers, Anne Kennedy, Peter Bower, Tom Sanders, Andrew Morden, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Jane C. Richardson and Fiona Stevenson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Thinking about changing mobility practices: how a social practice approach can help 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Nettleton and Judith Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Providers’ constructions of pregnant and early parenting women who use substances 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCecilia Benoit, Camille Stengel, Lenora Marcellus, Helga Hallgrimsdottir, John Anderson, Karen MacKinnon,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRachel Phillips, Pilar Zazueta and Sinead Charbonneau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Staying ‘in the zone’ but not passing the ‘point of no return’: embodiment, gender and drinking in mid-life 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntonia C. Lyons, Carol Emslie and Kate Hunt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Complexities and contingencies conceptualised: towards a model of reproductive navigation 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErica van der Sijpt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Sustained multiplicity in everyday cholesterol reduction: repertoires and practices in talk about ‘healthy living’ 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine M. Will and Kate Weiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Enjoy your food: on losing weight and taking pleasure 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElse Vogel and Annemarie Mol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Cohn\u003c\/b\u003e is a Reader in Medical Anthropology at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on issues related to diagnosis, contested conditions and chronic illness in the UK and other high-income societies. With a strong commitment to contemporary social theory, Cohn is interested in ways in which innovative social science can shape aspects of medical practice. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe importance of health behaviour is increasingly prominent in health-related research and policy interventions. As a result, the belief that there are discrete, observable, and measureable behaviours has become almost universally adopted. Often they are often conceived of in the negative as things people do that are bad for them, and which should therefore be subject to corrective, individualised interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn response, \u003ci\u003eFrom Health Behaviours to Health Practices\u003c\/i\u003e assesses the limitations of the concept through international contributions that complement, as well as critique, dominant conceptualisations of health behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and empirical sources, the book explores whether there are alternative ways to both think through and conduct research into what people do and don’t do in relation to their health and experiences of illness. The volume collectively argues for a more socially situated approach, proposing that the term \u003ci\u003ehealth practices\u003c\/i\u003e has far greater potential to acknowledge the more complex, dynamic and contingent nature of everyday activities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServing as an important point of reference for debate, the book additionally questions the potential contribution of contemporary medical sociology, and the social sciences more generally, in the context of the rise of multidisciplinary and mixed methods health research.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989247836389,"sku":"NP9781118898390","price":41.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118898390.jpg?v=1761783368","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/from-health-behaviours-to-health-practices-isbn-9781118898390","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}