Social Movements in Health [Paperback]

• Demonstrates that health social movements are an innovative and powerful form of political action.
  
• Brings together the study of health and illness with social movement theory in order to establish a basis for the study of health social movements.
  
• Covers disease-based movements focused on diseases such as Alzheimer’s and breast cancer.
  
• Also addresses issue-based movements such as the pro-choice movement, the movement for complementary and alternative medicine, and movements around stem cell research.
  
• Illustrates the value of interdisciplinary approaches to studying health social movements.

1. Social Movements in Health: An Introduction: Phil Brown and Stephen Zavestoski.

2. Medical Modernisation, Scientific Research Fields and the Epistemic Politics of Health Social Movements: David Hess.

3. The Dynamic Interplay Between Western Medicine and Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Movement: Melinda Goldner.

4. Health COnsumer Groups: A New Social Movement?: Judith Alsop, Kathryn Jones, and Rob Baggott.

5. Regenerating Movements: Embryonic Stem Cells, Social Movements, and the Politics of Potentiality: Chris Ganchoff.

6. Uneasy Allies: Pro-choice Physicians, Feminist Health Activists, and the Struggle for Abortion Rights: Carole Joffe and Tracy Weitz.

7. Advocating Voice: Organisational, Historical and Social Milieux of the Alzheimer’s Disease Movement: Renee Beard.

8. Framing as a Cultural Resource in Health Social Movements: Funding Activism and the Breast Cancer Movement in the US 1990-1993: Emily KolC$