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Configuring Health Consumers

Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Roma Harris

    1. The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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  2. Nadine Wathen

    1. The University of Western Ontario, Canada

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  3. Sally Wyatt

    1. Virtual Knowledge Studio, Royal Academy for Arts & Sciences, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Health(y) Citizenship: Technology, Work and Narratives of Responsibility

    1. Health(y) Citizenship: Technology, Work and Narratives of Responsibility

      • Sally Wyatt, Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen
      Pages 1-10

  6. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Impatient on the Net: Exploring the Genres of Internet Use for Health

      • Maria Bakardjieva
      Pages 163-177

    3. Sourcing the Crowd for Health Experiences: Letting the People Speak or Obliging Voice Through Choice?

      • Samantha Adams
      Pages 178-193

    4. Working (IT) Out Together: Engaging the Community in E-Health Developments for Obesity Management

      • Flis Henwood, Leslie Carlin, Elizabeth S. Guy, Audrey M. Marshall, Helen Smith
      Pages 194-210

    5. Working to be Healthy: Empowering Consumers or Citizens?

      • Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen, Sally Wyatt
      Pages 211-224

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 225-267
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About this book

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.

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'The vignettes of research here are important and timely and will offer some useful entry points for students and scholars seeking to get a flavour of some key debates in current medical sociology.' - Sociology of Health & Illness

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Western Ontario, Canada

    Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen

  • Virtual Knowledge Studio, Royal Academy for Arts & Sciences, The Netherlands

    Sally Wyatt

About the editors

SAMANTHA ADAMS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands LUCY APHRAMOR is Honorary Research Fellow in the Applied Research Centre in Health and Lifestyle Interventions, Coventry University, UK MARIA BAKARDJIEVA is Professor and Division Head, Communication, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada LESLIE BELLA is Honorary Research Professor in the School of Social Work, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada LESLIE CARLIN is a Research Fellow in Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK JACQUI GINGRAS is Assistant Professor in the School of Nutrition at Ryerson University in Toronto and a Registered Dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario, Canada MAYA GOLDENBERG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Bachelor of Arts and Science Program, University of Guelph, Canada ELIZABETH GUY is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UK FLIS HENWOOD is Professor of Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UK AUDREY MARSHALL is Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences and a member of the Social Informatics Research Unit, University of Brighton, UK CLARE MOYNIHAN is a Medical Sociologist and Senior Research Fellow and Research Associate at the Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, UK PÄR SALANDER is Professor in the Department of Social Work, Umeå University, Sweden PETER SALMON is Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK HELEN SMITH is Professor of Primary Care at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK PHILIPPA SPOEL is Associate Professor of English at Laurentian University, Canada TIFFANY VEINOT is Assistant Professor in the School of Information, with a cross-appointment at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, USA CORINNE WEISGERBER is Assistant Professor of Communication at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, USA SARAH WILCOX is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Sarah Lawrence College in New York, USA

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