Ebook: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness
Author: Alan Blum
- Tags: Administration & Medicine Economics, Allied Health Professions, Basic Sciences, Dentistry, History, Medical Informatics, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology, Psychology, Research, Veterinary Medicine
- Series: Culture Disease and Well-Being
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Intellect Ltd
- Language: English
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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.