The Cult and Science of Public Health: A Sociological Investigation - Softcover

Dew, Kevin

 
9781782385189: The Cult and Science of Public Health: A Sociological Investigation

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It explores the tensions that arise as a result of public health being both a science and a moral force in society It demonstrates the ways in which public health acts not only to constrain individual excess, but also to constrain the execesses of capitalism It uses the work of Durkheim in a theoretically innovative way to provide insights into the paradoxes of public health

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Kevin Dew is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In 2007 he was awarded the inaugural scholarship award from the Sociological Association of Aotearoa/New Zealand for contributions to New Zealand sociology.

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