Social Movements in HealthISBN: 978-1-4051-2449-2
Paperback
208 pages
April 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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- The first collection of research on health social movements.
- Demonstrates that health social movements are an innovative and powerful form of political action.
- Brings together the study of health and illness with social movement theory in order to establish a basis for the study of health social movements.
- Covers disease-based movements focused on diseases such as Alzheimer’s and breast cancer.
- Also addresses issue-based movements such as the pro-choice movement, the movement for complementary and alternative medicine, and movements around stem cell research.
- Illustrates the value of interdisciplinary approaches to studying health social movements.
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