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The Grey Zone of Health and Illness

Culture, Disease, and Well-Being

Alan Blum author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Intellect

Published:15th Dec '10

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Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies. With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care alike. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care tends to posit it as a sort of state of permanent emergency, like the nuclear standoff of the Cold War. To move beyond that, he argues, will require a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramifications in the academy and beyond.

ISBN: 9781841503646

Dimensions: 229mm x 178mm x 17mm

Weight: 653g

269 pages