Leisure, Health and Well-Being A Holistic Approach [Paperback]

This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions. Contributors to this edited volume explore the physical, mental, emotional, sexual and social aspects of health and leisure as well as the influence of moral and religious principles. The connections between the individual and the social structure, social integration, the social division of labor, and the natural environment are also analysed.

The volume studies this relationship from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, psychology, psychiatry, medical sciences, sport sciences, education, policy making, and from both national and international perspectives. As such, the collection will be of interest to scholars and students across a range of disciplines, including Leisure Studies, Health Studies, Health Promotion, Psychology and Mental Health, Sociology and Sport Studies.

 

Healthy leisure and Leisureful health - Introductory State of the Art by Zsuzsanna BenkQ.- Part 1. Go West.- 1.1. Ethical Aspects of Leisure Choices and the Autonomous Chooser by Colin Wringe.- 1.2. This Side of Paradise: The Role of On-Line Fandom in the Construction of Leisure, Wellbeing and the Lifeworld by Karl Spracklen.- 1.3. Lunchboxes, Health, Leisure and Well-being: Analysing the connections by Vicki Harman and Benedetta Cappellini.- 1.4. Wellness customers and their needs by Peter Kalkowski and Gerd Paul.- 1.5. Leisure activities in care homes  how do they relate to the well being of the elderly? by Dietmar Goelitz, Christine Trenkamp and Peter Paulus.- Part 2. The Visegrad Four .- 2.1. Leisure and Pleasure: Healthy, Useful, Pleasant  Why Dont We Do? by Gy?rgy B?rdos and J?lia ?brah?m.- 2.2. Trapped by sense of comfort  leisure time consumption habits from the aspect of economic psychology by L?szl? L. LiplC<