Critical Health Psychology

by Murray, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781137282651
• ISBN10: 1137282657
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-12-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

What is critical health psychology? How is it changing the way we think about topics like ageing,
the community and gender? What can it tell us about our understanding of health and illness?

The second edition of this highly regarded text has been thoroughly updated to take account
of the changes in the field over the last decade. It includes new chapters on ageing and health,
critical disability studies and critical anthropology, and it features contributions from worldleading
researchers.

Examining the debates and disputes that lie at the heart of health psychology, this new
edition offers a refreshing critical perspective. It is invaluable reading for students of health
psychology, critical psychology and community psychology.

Author Biography

Michael Murray is Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Keele University, UK. He is Associate Editor of Psychology and Health and is on the Editorial Boards of Health Psychology Review and Arts & Health.

Table of Contents

Introducing Critical Health Psychology; Michael Murray

PART I: CONSTRUCTING AND EXPERIENCING HEALTH AND ILLNESS

1. A Critical History of Health Psychology and its Relationship to Biomedicine; Henderikus J. Stam

2. The Need for an "Embodied-Societal-Psychological" (ESP) Model of Illness Experience; Marie Santiago Delefosse

3. Health and Illness: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach; Robert Kugelmann

4. Suffering; Alan Radley

PART II: HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN CONTEXT

5. Deconstructing and Addressing Health Disparities to Build Health Equity; Magdalene Szaflarski and Lisa M. Vaughn

6. Gender and Sexuality Issues in Health Psychology: Challenges from Feminist and Queer Perspectives; Katherine Johnson

7. Culture, Empowerment and Health; Malcolm MacLachlan

8. Critical Approaches to Ageing and Health; Christine Stephens

PART III: RESEARCHING HEALTH AND ILLNESS

9. Reflexivity: Fostering Research Quality, Ethicality, Criticality and Creativity; Kerry Chamberlain

10. Qualitative Research as Social Transformation; Uwe Flick

11. Discourse Analysis and Health Psychology; Carla Willig

12. Using Action Research Methodologies to Address Community Health Issues; Mary Brydon-Miller

PART IV: PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLBEING

13. Promoting Health through Narrative Practice; Anneke Sools and Michael Murray

14. Health Psychology and Community Action; Catherine Campbell

15. Critical Disability Studies and Critical Health Psychology: Comrades in Arms?; Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick Cole

16. Critical Anthropology for Global Health: What Can it Contribute to Critical Public Health?; Mark Nichter and Melanie Medeiros