The Grey Zone in Health and Illness
, by Blum, Alan- ISBN: 9781841503646 | 1841503649
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/15/2010
Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies. WithThe Grey Zone in Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health and health care alike. Drawing on a range of thinkers, Blum explains how our current understanding of health care tends to posit it as a sort of state of permanent emergency, like the nuclear standoff of the cold war. To move beyond that, he argues, will require a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society,The Grey Zone in Health and Illnesswill have wide ramifications in the academy and beyond.