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Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from psychological and biomedical perspectives. Importantly, Hope in Health explores how hope manifests and is sustained in various arenas of health, medicine and healthcare.
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Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. He has researched and published extensively in the sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, and gender studies.
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Book Title: Hope in Health
Book Subtitle: The Socio-Politics of Optimism
Authors: Alan Petersen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313867
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-36193-5Published: 28 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31386-7Published: 27 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 175
Topics: Health Psychology, Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Life Sciences, general