Social scientists of medicine have largely, although by no means exclusively, focused their
research on illness and sickness thus obscuring social scientific investigations of positive …

This article analyzes discursive strategies by which health behaviors are instituted in the
management of people's lives in contemporary times from the entrepreneurial neoliberal …

This special issue of Sport, Education and Society brings together six articles following a call
for papers exploring the emergence of body pedagogies within education policy and …

Schools within a 'knowledge economy'nurture and endorse particular 'corporeal
orientations', that is to say, ascribe value, meaning and potential to 'the body'(particular …

Post-modernism and post-structuralism often appear to be used interchangeably in
educational writing and research, with the term post-modernism more likely to be used in …

Our social world is rife with neoliberal thought, and is organised to promote the virtues and
values of profit, entrepreneurship, and sacrifice. The stage was set for the introduction and …

In 1998, 2,880 Year 4 and Year 8 students were monitored for a new curriculum combining
health education, physical education and aspects of home economics, which was …

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour
change to target 'unsafe','unhealthy'and/or 'risky'behaviours. These theories and models …

This paper examines the multiple ways in which health policy relating to obesity, diet and
exercise is recontextualised and mediated by teachers and pupils in the context of social …

This special issue explores the deep entanglements between medicine, law, politics,
morality and economy in the contemporary world order and asks how these entwinements …