Sonja Olin Lauritzen

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 children’s 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 children’s livesEncourages critical reflection on contemporary health policy and its relationships to culturally specific ways of knowing and understanding children’s healthBrings together new and leading scholars in the field of children’s health and illnessMoves the highly important issue of children’s health into the mainstream sociology of health and illness