Table of Contents

Preface

Contribution

PART 1 Sociology matters

1 Postmodernism and 'health' - Nick J Fox

2 Inequalities in late-modern health care - Robin Bunton

3 Consumer reconstructions of medical knowledge in Australia - Stephanie D Short

4 Emotions, equity and health - Simon J Williams

5 Evolutionary medicine - James S Chisholm

PART 2 Experience matters

6 Health matters in developing economies - Lenore Manderson

7 Ethnicity, health and health care in Britain - Waqar Ahmad + Lesley Jones

8 Children's images of health - Gillian Bendelow + Pat Pridmore

9 Health and the discourse of weight control - Deirdre Davies

10 Containing the body - Wendy Seymour

11 A good enough death? - Beverley McNamara

PART 3 Care matters

12 Medicine and health care in popular media - Deborah Lupton

13 Trust and medical authority - Ann Daniel

14 Uncertainty in medical deci

About the Author

Alan Petersen is Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is author of In a Critical Condition, co-author with Deborah Lupton of The New Public Health and co-editor with Robin Bunton of Foucault, Health and Medicine.

Charles Waddell is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, and Scholastic at the Pontificio Collegio Beda, Rome.

Alan Petersen and Charles Waddell are co-editors of the predecessor to this book, Just Health.