The oeuvre of risk in health promotion : a reflexive metatheoretical critique
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011. Medicine Bibliography: leaves 228-244. In this dissertation I make a case for heightened reflexivity within health promotion via a metatheoretical critique of the field levied through the lens of my own research - a quantitative study into t...
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ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:theses5/35790 2023-05-15T17:23:34+02:00 The oeuvre of risk in health promotion : a reflexive metatheoretical critique Monaghan, Kelly Nicole, 1972- Memorial University of Newfoundland. Faculty of Medicine 2011 ix, 278 leaves : ill. Image/jpeg; Application/pdf http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/theses5/id/35790 Eng eng Electronic Theses and Dissertations (5.15 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca.qe2a-proxy.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Monaghan_Kelly.pdf http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/theses5/id/35790 The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission. Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries Health promotion--Social aspects Mass media in health education Health behavior in adolescence Teenagers--Services for Health Promotion Adolescent Behavior Mass Media Text Electronic thesis or dissertation 2011 ftmemorialunivdc 2015-08-06T19:22:53Z Thesis (Ph.D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011. Medicine Bibliography: leaves 228-244. In this dissertation I make a case for heightened reflexivity within health promotion via a metatheoretical critique of the field levied through the lens of my own research - a quantitative study into the media usage patterns of 1271 junior high school students carried out in 2005, and a youth-led media literacy production project on media and adolescent health, carried out in 2006. Initially formulated as a study of the impact of mass media on adolescent health, I ultimately came to question the ontological and epistemological assumptions grounding this inquiry. My concern centred on the prominence of "risk" as the dominant discourse within the prevention field today and its construction of media as risk, adolescence as a period of risk, and the family unit as an agent of risk. Accordingly, I reoriented this dissertation as a metatheoretical critique of this oeuvre of risk along with the ontological and epistemological assumptions underpinning the field of health promotion more generally. In short, what began as an investigation into the impact of media on adolescent health has become an interrogation of the more substantive issue of how evermore aspects of the private and social worlds of individuals have come under the gaze of health promotion. Through this dissertation I intend to illuminate the limits of risk as a social category for understanding complex health issues, as well as epidemiological modes of inquiry as ways of knowing within the field. Thesis Newfoundland studies University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) |
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011. Medicine Bibliography: leaves 228-244. In this dissertation I make a case for heightened reflexivity within health promotion via a metatheoretical critique of the field levied through the lens of my own research - a quantitative study into the media usage patterns of 1271 junior high school students carried out in 2005, and a youth-led media literacy production project on media and adolescent health, carried out in 2006. Initially formulated as a study of the impact of mass media on adolescent health, I ultimately came to question the ontological and epistemological assumptions grounding this inquiry. My concern centred on the prominence of "risk" as the dominant discourse within the prevention field today and its construction of media as risk, adolescence as a period of risk, and the family unit as an agent of risk. Accordingly, I reoriented this dissertation as a metatheoretical critique of this oeuvre of risk along with the ontological and epistemological assumptions underpinning the field of health promotion more generally. In short, what began as an investigation into the impact of media on adolescent health has become an interrogation of the more substantive issue of how evermore aspects of the private and social worlds of individuals have come under the gaze of health promotion. Through this dissertation I intend to illuminate the limits of risk as a social category for understanding complex health issues, as well as epidemiological modes of inquiry as ways of knowing within the field. |
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