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Book SynopsisThis study applies poststructuralist and postmodern ideas to issues of health and health care to provide a radical re-think of how health is to be understood. It offers a perspective in which health is seen as an affirmation of potential rather than a narrow biopsychosocial construct. The author develops his notion of archehealth, providing an account of a wide range of post-structuralist and postmodern theoretical perspectives and their relevance to the field of health. The book is divided into three sections; the first section explores issues of power and control in health settings; the second loooks ta resistance to such power and control; the final section addresses ways in which post-sztructuralist and postmodern approaches may be used as research methodology. In each chapter the author explains and apllies a selection of theoretical perspectives. These include Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Deleuze, Guattari, Cixous, Haraway, Kristeva, Beck, Barthes, Tyler, Landow, Bauman, Cascardi, Baudrillard and Atkinson.
Table of ContentsThe promise of postmodernism; control; framing the doctor-patient encounter; space, time and health; the ethics and politics of care; resistance; beyond Foucault's docile body; Deleuze, Guattari and the politics of embodiment; risk and choices; doing postmodern research; research data as text; the researcher as nomad; postscript - being postmodern in a modern world.
