Public Discourse and Health Policies: The Price, Bosco Hardcover..

Taylor & Francis

Public Discourse and Health PoliciesThe Price of Health in Contemporary Italy\nAuthor(s): Nicoletta Bosco\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367427016, 978-0367427016\nSynopsis\nThe questions addressed in the book revolve around the public nature of health as an asset and the rights associated with it, by drawing attention to sociologys role in shedding light on current dynamics and understanding how they may change in the future.\n\nIn the field of public health, significant empirical evidence points not only to the outcomes, clinical and otherwise, that extensive information can produce but also to the urgent need to rethink the far from straightforward relationship between having this information and the ability to put it to effective use in tackling the problems it relates to.\n\nThe book is intended for a broad audience of university researchers and students, particularly those involved in upper-level sociolog.