Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Policy and Practice: Competing Interests or Complementary Interpretations?

Explores the influence of competing and complimentary theoretical perspectives on everyday policy and practice. The book provides historical, international, national and philosophical perspectives to illuminate the global political and cultural context of health care. It illustrates how competing interests can, ultimately, contribute to a critical understanding of health care policy and practice, demonstrating the importance of interdisciplinarity as a means of deriving both critical and provisional models of good practice and policy.