Birth to Old Age: Health in Transition

by Davey, Basiro

• ISBN13: 9780335208364
• ISBN10: 0335208363
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Birth to Old Age is about our changing experiences and understanding of health throughout our lifespan. The major theme of Birth to Old Age is our movement from dependence on others during childhood to a state of interdependence in adulthood, and increasing dependency in later life. This tension between autonomy and social dependency is reflected throughout our adult life in issues such as sexuality, fertility, work and stress. Each chapter focuses on a specific period of our lives, reviewing the major health issues of that age group - providing new and challenging insights and raising important questions;* Are parents responsible for accidents to children? * Is risk-taking an essential step in the transition from adolescence to adulthood? * What is the mid-life 'crisis'? * How does society shape the ways in which we experience death and dying?This book will be a valuable text for students of health studies, social work, social policy, medicine, nursing and the social sciences. It will be important reading for a wide range of health professionals and carers.

Table of Contents

A note for the general reader	6	(2)
Study guide for OU students	8	(2)
The life-course perspective	10	(9)
Basiro Davey
The changing fortunes of the life course	19	(26)
Alastair Gray
Care in pregnancy and childbirth	45	(38)
Gavin Young
Kevin McConway
Child health and development	83	(20)
Jim Stevenson
John Oates
Children and accidents	103	(22)
Judith Green
Adolescent development and risk-taking	125	(26)
Viviane Green
Basiro Davey
Sex, fertility and adulthood	151	(22)
Naomi Pfeffer
Work and stress in adult life	173	(22)
Howard Kahn
Cary Cooper
Basiro Davey
Change and crisis in mid-life	195	(16)
Mike Hepworth
Experiencing later life	211	(16)
Robert Slater
Living with disability in later life	227	(16)
Julia Johnson
Dying	243	(14)
Clive Seale
Society and death	257	(16)
Clive Seale
Health in transition	273	(11)
Basiro Davey
References and further sources	284	(24)
Answers to questions	308	(12)
Acknowledgements	320	(3)
Index	323