Critical Health Psychology

Michael Murray is Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Keele University, UK. He is Associate Editor of Psychology and Health and is on the Editorial Boards of Health Psychology Review and Arts & Health.

"This is a wide-ranging and much needed re-invigoration of key debates and concerns in critical health psychology. The collection situates the field as a transdisciplinary endeavour, and offers a thoughtful invitation for continued critical engagement with health, illness and human wellbeing. Critical Health Psychology will be valuable for health psychology students and qualitative health researchers within, and beyond, the discipline's bounds." - Elizabeth Peel, University of Worcester, UK. "This second edition of Critical Health Psychology extends the strengths of the first. The chapters offer an accessible mapping of the terrain of Critical Health Psychology today. Being truly international in nature, this text is at the cutting edge of issues for critical health psychologists that examine key areas with both depth and breadth, considering topics, methods, contexts and challenges. A must read for scholars at all levels across social science and health disciplines." - Abigail Locke, University of Huddersfield, UK "When originally published this book was ground-breaking in offering a new approach to health psychology. In this revised and extended edition new ideas are introduced from both inside and outside the field of health psychology which considerably expands the debate about theories and methods. I particularly welcome the attention given to the use of narrative theory within health psychology and hope that it encourages further reassessment of the dominant approaches within the field." - Ad Kaptein, Professor of Medical Psychology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands

• Introducing Critical Health Psychology; Michael MurrayPART I: CONSTRUCTING AND EXPERIENCING HEALTH AND ILLNESS1. A Critical History of Health Psychology and its Relationship to Biomedicine; Henderikus J. Stam2. The Need for an "Embodied-Societal-Psychological" (ESP) Model of Illness Experience; Marie Santiago Delefosse3. Health and Illness: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach; Robert Kugelmann4. Suffering; Alan RadleyPART II: HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN CONTEXT5. Deconstructing and Addressing Health Disparities to Build Health Equity; Magdalene Szaflarski and Lisa M. Vaughn6. Gender and Sexuality Issues in Health Psychology: Challenges from Feminist and Queer Perspectives; Katherine Johnson7. Culture, Empowerment and Health; Malcolm MacLachlan8. Critical Approaches to Ageing and Health; Christine StephensPART III: RESEARCHING HEALTH AND ILLNESS9. Reflexivity: Fostering Research Quality, Ethicality, Criticality and Creativity; Kerry Chamberlain10. Qualitative Research as Social Transformation; Uwe Flick11. Discourse Analysis and Health Psychology; Carla Willig12. Using Action Research Methodologies to Address Community Health Issues; Mary Brydon-MillerPART IV: PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLBEING13. Promoting Health through Narrative Practice; Anneke Sools and Michael Murray14. Health Psychology and Community Action; Catherine Campbell15. Critical Disability Studies and Critical Health Psychology: Comrades in Arms?; Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick Cole16. Critical Anthropology for Global Health: What Can it Contribute to Critical Public Health?; Mark Nichter and Melanie Medeiros.