Health Matters
Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada
By Eric Mykhalovskiy,Jacqueline Choiniere,Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong | Publisher: University of Toronto Press
About the book
In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribute alternative perspectives about what counts as health care problems and how to best to address them.
Editions of Health Matters
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781487507794
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781487525385
- EBook
- ISBN 9781487536978
- PDF
- ISBN 9781487536961
Read an Excerpt
In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribute alternative perspectives about what counts as health care problems and how to best to address them.
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What is Health Matters about?
In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribute alternative perspectives about what counts as health care problems and how to best to address them.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Health Matters?
Medicine and Nursing > Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics
Where can I read a sample of Health Matters?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781487507794
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Health Matters?
Eric Mykhalovskiy,Jacqueline Choiniere,Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Health Matters is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781487507794) and paperback(ISBN 9781487525385) and ebook(ISBN 9781487536978) and pdf(ISBN 9781487536961)
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