The second edition of this highly regarded text has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest debates in health psychology, including new chapters on disability studies, critical anthropology and ageing. It features contributions from key figures in the field and includes more coverage of cross-cultural issues.

Introducing Critical Health Psychology; Michael Murray PART I: CONSTRUCTING AND EXPERIENCING HEALTH AND ILLNESS 1. A Critical History of Health Psychology and its Relationship to Biomedicine; Henderikus J. Stam 2. The Need for an "Embodied-Societal-Psychological" (ESP) Model of Illness Experience; Marie Santiago Delefosse 3. Health and Illness: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach; Robert Kugelmann 4. Suffering; Alan RadleyPART II: HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN CONTEXT 5. Deconstructing and Addressing Health Disparities to Build Health Equity; Magdalene Szaflarski and Lisa M. Vaughn 6. Gender and Sexuality Issues in Health Psychology: Challenges from Feminist and Queer Perspectives; Katherine Johnson 7. Culture, Empowerment and Health; Malcolm MacLachlan 8. Critical Approaches to Ageing and Health; Christine Stephens PART III: RESEARCHING HEALTH AND ILLNESS 9. Reflexivity: Fostering Research Quality, Ethicality, Criticality and Creativity; Kerry Chamberlain 10. Qualitative Research as Social Transformation; Uwe Flick 11. Discourse Analysis and Health Psychology; Carla Willig 12. Using Action Research Methodologies to Address Community Health Issues; Mary Brydon-Miller PART IV: PROMOTING HEALTH AND WELLBEING 13. Promoting Health through Narrative Practice; Anneke Sools and Michael Murray 14. Health Psychology and Community Action; Catherine Campbell 15. Critical Disability Studies and Critical Health Psychology: Comrades in Arms?; Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick Cole 16. Critical Anthropology for Global Health: What Can it Contribute to Critical Public Health?; Mark Nichter and Melanie Medeiros.

"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

"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