What is Health?
What is Health? by Ruth Cross, published by Polity Press on September 4, 2024, is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted concept of health. This 216-page book delves into the subjective nature of health, examining how individuals perceive and experience it. Ruth Cross draws on theory, research, and contemporary debates to challenge conventional assumptions, providing a nuanced understanding of health that encompasses both everyday perspectives and expert insights from medical, academic, and policy domains.
Readers will find a thorough investigation into the complexities of health, as the book integrates various knowledge and expertise while highlighting the connections between human and planetary health. This edition is particularly relevant for those in the health field or those training for careers in health-related areas, offering a broad understanding of the intricate issues surrounding health and its implications in society.
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What is health? What does health mean to people? How do we make sense of health and experience it?
There are no simple answers to these questions. Health is complex, subjective and varied. Drawing on theory, research and contemporary debates, Ruth Cross explores the nature of health in depth and challenges our thinking about it. Moving beyond taken-for-granted assumptions, she gives the meaning of ‘health’ its due attention, exploring everyday perspectives as well as ‘expert’ medical, academic and policy understandings and approaches. In doing so, the book brings together different knowledge and expertise on health, also considering the inextricable links between human and planetary health.
This book is important for all those working in the health field, or training to do so, seeking a broad understanding about health and all its complexity.
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