Researching Health Promotion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415215919 ISBN 13: 9780415215916

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Providing a critical review of the current state of health promotion research. This book re-conceptualises the field of health promotion as collaborative and integrating enterprise, rather than as a battlefield for disciplinary and intellectual clashes.
It makes a significant contribution to ongoing epistemological, theoretical and methodological debates in health promotion research. With contributors from Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Ireland, the UK and the US, Researching Health Promotion will be of interest to students and professionals working in health promotion, public health, medicine and health policy.

About this title

About the Author:

James D. Watson was born in 1928 in Chicago. After graduation from the University of Chicago, he worked in genetics at Indiana University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1950. He spent a year at the University of Copenhagen, followed by two years at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. There he met Francis Crick, and the collaboration resulted in their proposal in 1953 of a structure for DNA. After a two-year period at Cal Tech, he joined the faculty at Harvard where he remained as Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology until 1976. Since 1968, as director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, his research has centered on bacterial virus, molecular genetics, and the synthesis of proteins.

In 1962, together with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, Dr. Watson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. Prior to "The Double Helix, " he wrote "The Molecular Biology of the Gene, " which is now in a third edition.

Watson is at the Health Education Board for Scotland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415215919
• ISBN 13: 9780415215916
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Platt Stephen