Beyond Health: Essays on Control, Resistance and Renewal

by Nicholas J. Fox and Free Association Books Free Association Books

Beyond Health applies post-structuralist 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 as a narrow biopsychosocial construct. The author develops his notion of arche-health and in so doing provides a lucid account of a wide range of post-structuralist and postmodern theoretical perspectives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853434698
• ISBN13: 9781853434693
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"