Children, Health and Well-being

This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research <i>with</i> children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children’s lives.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Demonstrates the importance of research <i>with</i> children and research from a child perspective, in order to fully understand the meaning and impact of health and illness in children’s lives</li> <li>Encourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children’s health</li> <li>Brings together new and leading scholars in the field of children’s health and illness</li> <li>Moves the highly important issue of children’s health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness</li> </ul>