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Configuring Health Consumers : Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility /

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Harris, Roma (Editor), Wathen, Nadine (Editor), Wyatt, Sally (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Health, technology, and society.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Medical Sociology.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Popular Science in Economics / Management.
Popular Science in Medicine and Health.
Social Policy.
Sociology, general.
Economics.
Health.
Medicine.
Social medicine.
Social policy.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 267 pages)
ISBN:9780230292543
DOI:10.1057/9780230292543