Children, Health and Well-being

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