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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Health discourses"”.
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Detached from Our Bodies: Representing women's mental health and well-being with graphic memoirs
… that challenge dominant social structures and discourses. In this thesis, I conduct visual, textual, and discourse analyses of three graphic memoirs by women that challenge pathological mental health discourses: Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green, Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder …
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Problematising Big Food’s appetite for policymaking the case of childhood obesity
… – by partnering with government, academia, health societies and other responsible members of civil society’ (Coca-Cola, 2011: 1). Big Food’s reinvention as public health promoter means that government public health policy is increasingly entangled with corporate practices. In 2011, the …
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Therapeutic Landscapes and the Public Health Conceptualization of Alcohol-Related Illness in Moscow, Russia
… of alcohol-related illnesses as public health problems. I contend that therapeutic landscapes are centrally important in shaping public health understandings of alcohol-related illnesses in Russia. I demonstrate that therapeutic landscapes are not only places with significant health …
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Reluctant Subjects: The Place of Gay Men in Canadian Media Discourse on HIV
… menâ s inclusion into the national and global health imaginaries of HIV/AIDS over the past three decades. I order to do so, the author analyzes three instances of public discourse on vulnerability and risk, and their representation in the continuum between individual and collective victimhood …
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Class, Neoliberalism, and Mental Health: a case study of the Cardiff Health Area.
… between class, neoliberalism, and mental health in the Cardiff Health Area. Quantitative analyses reveal that class has a more statistically significant influence on the prevalence of mental ill-health than deprivation. Qualitative analyses situate phenomenological experiences of mental …
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Twentieth Century Pandemic Narratives and Mental Health Discourse
… century pandemic novels’ engagement with mental health discourses surrounding anxiety and melancholia. Girard argues that plague literature consists of four main elements: contamination, dissipation of differences, doubles, and sacrifice; he also argues that the plague represents violence. In …
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Mental ill health in nursing and midwifery education. A critical discourse analysis
Students diagnosed with long-term mental health conditions have been the focus of policy development for over a decade. Student mental health is on the increase and universities are legally obliged to make reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Therefore it is crucial that nursing and …
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Health, the Body, and Movement: What Is Health and Physical Education For? A Critical Policy Analysis of Health and Physical Education Curriculum Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand, China, and Japan
This thesis examines the health and physical education (HPE) curriculum policies of Aotearoa New Zealand, China, and Japan to investigate how HPE is represented in each nation state. Global health discourses surrounding concerns such as obesity and physical inactivity among young people …
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Race, Gender, and Beauty in Late Colonial India c.1900-1950.
… to colonial and indigenous sanitation and health discourses, the marriage market, and tied to ways of being urban, modern, and feminine. This praxis also involved navigating skin-lightening methodologies which engendered complicities in, and subversions of, skin colour hierarchies. By …
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Ideal Cities: the Ancient City and the Modern City in Italy (1860-1914)
… construction standards in order to create healthy cities and a healthy Italian nation. I demonstrate, through planning theories, plans and archaeological reconstructions, that Italian reformers brought about change by idealising the Greco-Roman city as a model. It was their belief that this …
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‘Let's build houses': the order of housing development shaping childhood topography in Mafuyana, Maphisa
… by residents – some of which challenge modernist health discourses of cleanliness and orderliness. When makeshift endeavours on fragmented housing fail to meet their satisfaction, some residents resort to migrating – either within the township or beyond its boundaries in search for better …
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Revolutions and 'Rough Cuts': Bodily Technologies for Regulating Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
… juridical, popular cultural, and public health discourses on sexuality, this project examines the construction and application of bodily technologies --meaning the physical and conceptual modes of regulation enacted to discipline and/or control "immodest" and "deviant" expressions of men …
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Discourses pertaining to, and lived experiences of, 'Maternal Obesity' (Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥ 30) and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus/Type Two Diabetes Mellitus in the pregnancy and post-birth period.
… in the context of medico-scientific/public health/ popular media discourses pertaining to ‘maternal obesity’/GDM/T2DM in pregnancy. ‘Maternal obesity’/GDM/T2DM in pregnancy are increasingly prevalent and clinically associated in manifold ways. Increasing prevalence is linked to the ‘global …
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Silent slips trips and broken hips: the recovery experiences of young adults following an isolated fracture of the proximal femur
… missing from the dominant societal discourse and healthcare policy on fragility hip fracture. They therefore represent a silent sub-subset of the fragility hip fracture population, whose recovery experiences and needs, particularly in the longer term, remain largely unknown. A critical …