Introduction: Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: Health Promotion and Prevention Programmes in Practice 9
5. Prologue: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease: Health, Ageing and Justice 29
6. Will the Entire Population be Overweight by 2230? Common Sense, Scientific Consensus and the ›Obesity Epidemic‹ 53
7. Prevention as a Side Effect? Distributing Trial Participants in a Pharmaceutical Drug Trial 83
8. Configuring Professional Identity – a Way to Renegotiate Good Care 105
9. Preferences versus Capabilities: How to Improve the (Future) Quality of Life for Women with Abled and Disabled Children 129
10. The Taming of Chance and the Actual Practice of Prevention; Rationalised Prevention and ›the Social‹ 147
11. Body-Identity Trajectories of Preventive.Selves++ 171
12. Epilogue: Translating Experience into Biomedical Assemblages. Observations on European Forms of (Imagined) Participatory Agency in Healthcare 195
13. List of Contributors 223