Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Special Issue of Health Sociology Review
Volume 17 Issue 2 August 2008
ii+98 pages ISBN 978-1-921348-00-6
Editors:
Christine Beasley
University of Adelaide , SA
Megan Warin
Durham University, UK
Many Public Health experts employ frameworks which are not recognized as involving theoretical presumptions. They remain unconvinced by the relevance of theorizing. As such presumptions remain implicit they also remain opaque, undeveloped and, problematically, less amenable to discussion, critique, reassessment and development.
Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives is concerned with developing new thinking in Preventive Health. Its aim is to consider theories shaping the field today, and to critique and re-imagine these theories, in order to provide the grounding for robust debate and to advance a more developed theoretical base for this field.
This Special Edition confronts the relative invisibility of theoretical frameworks in Public Health generally, and Preventive Health more specifically, and provides a multi-disciplinary forum which analyses and strengthens the underdeveloped interpretive social dimension of Preventive Health. This collection draws together papers engaging in critical debate about current theoretical frameworks for understanding preventive and interventionist elements in health.
The papers in concert offer a counter to the biomedical, individualistic, and unreflectively empirical orientation of most writings in Preventive Heath. They cover a number of theoretical vocabularies and issues, including obesity, smoking, and sexuality. The central intention throughout is to move away from popular theoretical assumptions and to offer theoretical innovations. As such this Edition is important reading for those with a special interest in preventive health.
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