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Experiences of Health Risks: Prevention, Power Dynamics and Inequalities: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

Autor Claudine Burton-Jeangros
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 ian 2025
This book focuses on health risks, a domain in which risk expansion has been particularly prolific. As a result of massive gains in scientific knowledge, made possible by statistical developments, data accumulation and computerisation over the last decades, more and more attention has been geared towards risks in the fields of public health and medicine.
Specifically directed towards concrete experiences of health risks, the book analyses the social contexts in which these experiences occur to understand how people, in their diverse positions, actually think, feel, act, and interact around experiences of risk. The author argues that recurrent debates about risk exist because most of the time the notion leaves aside the complexity of social processes surrounding actual experiences and interpretations of vulnerability and danger in society.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology of health and medicine and risk studies, as well as health professionals and policy-makers facing the complexity of acting and deciding in the risk society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031653766
ISBN-10: 3031653769
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: Approx. 210 p. 2 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Ediția:2025
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. Knowledge.- 3. Emotions.- 4. Action.- 5. Interactions.- 6. Social Structures.- 7. Conclusion.

Notă biografică

Claudine Burton-Jeangros is Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on social inequalities in health, health trajectories and  interpretations of risks. Her most recent book is the co-edited volume Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics: Social Science Perspectives (2019), with Mathilde Bourrier and Nathalie Brender. Her work has been published in journals such as Frontiers in Public Health, BMC Public Health, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Social Science & Medicine,

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This book focuses on health risks, a domain in which risk expansion has been particularly prolific. As a result of massive gains in scientific knowledge, made possible by statistical developments, data accumulation and computerisation over the last decades, more and more attention has been geared towards risks in the fields of public health and medicine.
Specifically directed towards concrete experiences of health risks, the book analyses the social contexts in which these experiences occur to understand how people, in their diverse positions, actually think, feel, act, and interact around experiences of risk. The author argues that recurrent debates about risk exist because most of the time the notion leaves aside the complexity of social processes surrounding actual experiences and interpretations of vulnerability and danger in society.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology of health and medicine and risk studies, as well as health professionals and policy-makers facing the complexity of acting and deciding in the risk society.
Claudine Burton-Jeangros is Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on social inequalities in health, health trajectories and  interpretations of risks. Her most recent book is the co-edited volume Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics: Social Science Perspectives (2019), with Mathilde Bourrier and Nathalie Brender. Her work has been published in journals such as Frontiers in Public Health, BMC Public Health, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Social Science & Medicine,

Caracteristici

Brings together empirical studies on health risk experiences with social theory of risk Emphasizes the profoundly normative nature of the concept of risk Focuses on social contexts in which health risks are interpreted, applied, and contested