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BL
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1039997
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b794367
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| Main Entry
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Hansen, Emily.
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| Title & Author
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Lifestyle in medicine /\ Emily Hansen and Gary Easthope.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Critical studies in health and society
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1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203002849
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: 9780203002841
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0415356849
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0415356857
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-182) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover -- Critical studies in health and society -- Lifestyle in Medicine -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Lifestyle as a medical explanatory model -- Introduction -- Medical models and medical explanations for disease -- Lifestyle theories of health and disease -- Influences on contemporary medical understandings of lifestyle -- Epidemiology and public health -- Lay understandings of lifestyle, health and disease -- Conclusion -- 2 Sociological and medical conceptions of lifestyle -- Introduction -- Does epidemiological research focused on lifestyle provide an effective explanation for patterns of health and illness? -- Do health promotion programmes aimed at modifying lifestyle risk factors produce improvements in health and prevent disease? -- Is lifestyle counselling effective in medical consultations? -- Conclusion -- 3 Assumptions underlying the medical approach to lifestyle -- Introduction -- Moralistic and discriminatory -- Expanding the health concept, medicalisation and surveillance -- Commodification and consumer culture -- A lifestyle approach continues the modernist scientific emphasis of medicine -- Conclusion -- 4 Lifestyle in medical and lay texts -- Introduction -- Epidemiological and public health texts -- 'Mainstream' medical texts -- Lay texts -- Conclusion -- 5 Doctors' understandings of lifestyle -- Introduction -- A framework for the presentation of results: disease, illness and health -- Lifestyle and disease -- Lifestyle and illness -- Lifestyle and health -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 6 Reflections on lifestyle in medicine -- Introduction -- Reviewing the results from the empirical study -- Changes and challenges to the lifestyle model -- The sociological critique of medical lifestyle understandings -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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| Abstract
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In Western societies, 'lifestyle' as an explanation for health and illness has become increasingly popular. Lifestyle in Medicine explores the ambiguity of the term 'lifestyle' and the way it is conceived and applied within medicine. Based on real doctor-patient consultations and in-depth interviews with doctors, the book discusses: the history behind current medical use of lifestyle the variable usage of the 'lifestyle' concept in different medical settings critical writings and recent shifts in sociological thinking about lifestyle public and government concerns about unhealthy lifestyles the ways in which health is discussed, doctor to patient. Evidence-based in its approach,  this book uses original research to highlight this topical issue and provides professional and lay perspectives on health and illness. It is essential reading for students and academics of medical sociology, health and allied health studies and anyone interested in health and society.
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Lifestyles-- Health aspects.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Healthy Living.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Holism.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Reference.
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Lifestyles-- Health aspects.
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MEDICAL-- Preventive Medicine.
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| Dewey Classification
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613
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RA776.9.H365 2007eb
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Easthope, Gary.
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