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Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice
The shift to prevention and health promotion is an example of how policy makers aim to rationalise and organise both health systems and patients' health practices. By applying a perspective from empirical science & technology studies (STS), based on qualitative research methods, the chapters of this book present a view behind the scenes and zoom into the micropolitics of prevention and health promotion. They analyse how patients are framed as being »at risk«, how preventative regimes shape medical practices, and what its practical consequences are in patients' everyday lives. This makes the insights of this book relevant for prevention and health promotion practitioners, public health policy-makers and researchers.
The Transformation of Contemporary Health Care
The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shaping and delivery of health care), the laboratory (science, experiments and 'evidence' in the management of research, practice and policy) and the forum (the application of deliberative procedures and other forms of public consultation to health care decision making).
Science, Technology and the Ageing Society
Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological and medical solutions are continuously sought. This book proposes that science and technology also played a crucial role in the creation and transformation of the ageing society itself. Drawing on existing work on science, technology and ageing in sociology, anthropology, history of science, geography and social gerontology, Science, Technology and the Ageing Society explores the complex, interweaving relationship between expertise, scientific and technological standards and social, normatively embedded age identities. Through a series of case st...
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Grounded Theory Reader
Der „Grounded Theory Reader“ bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung und den aktuellen Stand der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie, die international am weitesten verbreitete qualitative Forschungsstrategie. Die Verfahrensbegründer, Barney Glaser und Anselm Strauss, sowie Kathy Charmaz, Adele Clarke und Juliet Corbin als deren „Schülerinnen“ und zentrale Repräsentantinnen der „zweiten Generation“ stellen in Originalbeiträgen und Interviews – erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung – ihre jeweiligen Standpunkte und Arbeitsweisen vor. Zusätzlich erörtern renommierte deutschsprachige Experten und Expertinnen, neben den beiden Herausgebenden u.a. Franz Breuer, Udo Kelle, Jo Reichertz, Gerhard Riemann und Jörg Strübing, Herausforderungen der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie mit Blick sowohl auf epistemologische Voraussetzungen als auch auf deren Nutzung in der Forschungspraxis.
