10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEALTHISM»
Discover the use of
healthism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
healthism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Inside Anorexia: The Experiences of Girls and their Families
Box 8.1 Healthism In western societies, a thin body is equated with being fit and
healthy and it is considered an individual's responsibility to be healthy and,
therefore, thin.This phenomenon is called “healthism.”163 Healthism messages
are ...
Desiree Boughtwood, Christine Halse, Anne Honey, 2007
2
Health and Exclusion: Policy and Practice in Health Provision
Healthism Healthism has been defined as the preoccupation with personal
health as a primary—often the primary—focus for the definition and achievement
of well-being; a goal which is to be attained primarily through the modification of
life ...
David Banks, Michael Purdy, 2005
3
Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness
It is here where the important concept of healthism must be introduced, as this
book centrally combines an analysis of consumer culture, bodies, and social
inequality with the concept of healthism from public health and medical sociology
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Shari L. Dworkin, Faye Linda Wachs, 2009
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Health Education: Critical Perspectives
“So what does this have to do with healthism?”, I hear the reader asking. In
answer, underpinning racism and colonialism is biopower; in this context, the
power to colonize justified upon the uncleanliness of the savage body (and thus
the ...
Katie Fitzpatrick, Richard Tinning, 2014
5
Pedagogy and Human Movement: Theory, Practice, Research
The possible implications ofthis are seen in the relationship between healthism
and the so-called contemporary obesity crisis. Western lifestyles, healthism, and
obesity in East Asia There is now ample evidence that many young people in
East ...
6
Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics
This duty to be well is an ideology that sociologists have come to describe as
healthism. According to Robert Crawford, healthism is defined . . . as the
preoccupation with personal health as a primary – often the primary – focus for
the definition ...
Jonathan Xavier Inda, 2008
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Physical Education, Curriculum And Culture: Critical Issues ...
Conclusion Crawford's (1986) conceptual categories of health as self-control and
release have served a useful purpose in aiding the analysis of the presentation of
healthism in Health-Based Physical Education. Through them, I have been ...
Richard Tinning, David Kirk, 2006
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Sport, Health and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective
The ideology of healthism, it is argued, serves to focus attention on individual
responsibility for our own health and, simultaneously, to divert attention away
from wider social processes—for example, poverty, unemployment, industrial
pollution, ...
Ivan Waddington, Andy Smith, 2013
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Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture
Responsibilisation is crucial in healthism, which fosters individual responsibility
and blame for one's health. Robert Crawford is credited as the first person to
have used the term 'healthism' in 1980 to describe the moralisation of health
within ...
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Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice
Healthism denies the social and cultural constraints that people with chronic
illness experience against 'choosing' healthy practices and life styles. Under a
regime of healthism, individuals experience intense social pressures to act in
such a ...
Debbie Kralik, Barbara Paterson, Vivien Coates, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEALTHISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
healthism is used in the context of the following news items.
Wheat, meat, now milk – what's safe to eat in the 21st century?
In academia this is called “healthism.” Her students are so desperate to unlock the secret to healthy eating that in the sociology of food classes ... «The Globe and Mail, Apr 15»
Should I let my children try alcohol?
Coercive healthism is a non-starter, though legions of miserable folk seem ever so enthusiastic for it. No wallop, no gaspers, what next? Reply | «The Guardian, Apr 15»
When Festivus was recognized as a religion for several months
... religious justification for the kosher food, King said he was an adherent to “healthism,” a term his attorney later acknowledged King made up. «Constitution Daily, Dec 14»
Breast Cancer Screening
... one early critic, Petr Skrabanek, described it as a technique of 'coercive healthism', a demonstration of the power of the state over individuals. «London Review of Books, May 14»
I May Be Fat, And I May Teach People About Nutrition, But I Am Not …
... at this issue, they are not actually angry about health -- they are angry about the loss of status they would sustain if we eliminated healthism. «xoJane, May 14»
Editorial: Hayden for OC Superior Court
The inmate claimed his dubious religion – which he called “healthism” – justified his request. And while Judge Johnson rejected healthism as a ... «OCRegister, Apr 14»
Greece Allows Smoking Areas in Bars, Clubs, Casinos, Lotto
Then the EU and the WHO had the Boston school of public healthism go to Athens and ensure the ban was being implemented before any ... «Greek Reporter, Mar 14»
The Trouble With Juice Cleanses
These days, juice is so much more than liquified fruits and vegetables. It's a status symbol, an offering at the altar of healthism, and a pretty ... «Bustle, Nov 13»
You've Heard of Racism and Sexism — But What About Healthism?
On the Health at Every Size blog yesterday, health education professor Fall Ferguson takes a look at “healthism,” which could be thought of as ... «Bustle, Nov 13»
11 upstart religions rooted in pop culture
After a plea in the name of "healthism" failed, California inmate Malcolm Alarmo King was awarded double portions of kosher meals after ... «The Week Magazine, Jan 13»
