Health Promotion and Prevention Programs in Practice : How Patients' Health Practices Are Rationalised, Reconceptualised and Reorganised

Mathar, Thomas (EDT); Jansen, Yvonne J. F. M. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 383761302X / ISBN 13: 9783837613025

Editore: transcript publishing, 2010

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Data di pubblicazione: 2010

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The shift to preventative care and health promotion is an example of how policymakers aim to rationalize and organize both health systems and patients health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book zoom into the micro politics of prevention and health promotion. They analyze how patients are framed as being at risk, how preventative regimes shape medical practices and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives.

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Tom Mathar is a PhD-student in the Research Cluster Preventive Self based at the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research interests lie in the field of Social Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies including telemedicine and telecare, health policy and politics, innovation in health science and technology. He teaches Health & Social Policy at HFH-Hamburg (University of Applied Sciences). Yvonne J.F.M. Jansen is cultural anthropologist and researcher at The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO Quality of Life, where she focuses on innovations in care and the formation and optimalisation of networks in care. She formerly was appointed as a PhD student at the Institute of Health Policy and Management of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, where she conducted her PhD research which comprised notions from Science and Technology Studies (STS).