Health and Wellbeing

This reader documents the growing debate about health and wellbeing. Some ''new voices'' speak from neglected lay experiences and values; others are challenging medical perspectives ''from within''. Competing perspectives on health beseige familiar areas of everyday life: our bodies the home and workplace. Health goals are increasingly debated on wider agendas in social planning: in the marketing of lifestyles in transport policies and in the appraisal of alternative futures. But prospects for health are bound up with social equity international justice and global sustainability - as well as with the ''journey of hope'' of the individuals who struggle to survive.