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Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
A special issue of Health Sociology Review
ISSN 1446-1242 Vol 17(2)
ISBN 978-1-9213480-0-6
Associate Professor Chris Beasley, University of Adelaide
Guest Editors:
Dr Megan Warin, Durham University
INDEXED IN: Thomson ISI Science Citation Index/Social Sciences
The purpose of this special edition of Health Sociology Review is to make a substantial contribution to the integration of social and political theory into public health practice and policy. While there is a range of diverse critical insights into preventive health, we seek to move away from popular theoretical assumptions and offer (new) conceptual models which re-imagine and reinvigorate theoretical perspectives in this field.
We invite papers seeking to engage in a critical debate concerning current theoretical frameworks for understanding health preventions and interventions. This may include (but is not limited to) challenging our existing stock of social and political theory and concepts of health and prevention, an examination of the limitations of conventional theoretical approaches, or a broadening of theoretical approaches. Some of the theoretical issues contributors might be interested in examining are those pertaining to ‘lifestyle' factors such as obesity and smoking, the concept of risk societies, the agency/structure dynamic, social determinants of health (including class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity), theories of embodiment, local/global intersections, the politics of health theory and practice, and social change.
In short, contributors are encouraged to contribute towards theoretical innovations in the fields of population and public health.
Authors are invited to contact the Guest Editors with their topic in advance of submitting papers (email: christine.beasley@adelaide.edu.au; megan.warin@durham.ac.uk)
Guidelines for manuscript preparation are available at:
www.healthsociologyreview.com/author-guidelines.php
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