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Health, Risk and Vulnerability

Editat de Alan Petersen, Iain Wilkinson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2007
The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics and society in our times.
Health, Risk and Vulnerability investigates the personal and political dimensions of health risk that structure everyday thought and action. In this innovative book, international contributors reflect upon the meaning and significance of risk across a broad range of social and institutional contexts, exploring current issues such as:
  • the ‘escalation of the medicalization of life’, involving the pathologization of normality and blurring of the divide between clinical and preventive medicine
  • the tendency for mental health service users to be regarded as representing a risk to others rather than being ‘at risk’ and vulnerable themselves
  • the development of health care systems to identify risk and prevent harm
  • women’s reactions to ‘high risk’ screening results during pregnancy and how they communicate with other women about risk
  • men and the use the internet to reconstruct their social and sexual identities
Charting new terrain in the sociology of health and risk, and focusing on the connections between them, Health, Risk and Vulnerability offers new perspectives on an important field of contemporary debate and provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, researchers, and policy makers.  
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415383073
ISBN-10: 0415383072
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 1 table and 3 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Health Risk and Vulnerability: An Introduction  2. Unlimited Medicalization?: Risk and the Pathologization of Normality  3. Community Care, Risk and the Shifting Focus of Danger and Vulnerability in Mental Health  4. Governmentality and the Subpolitics of Teenage Sexual Risk Behaviour  5. Restructuring Health Care: Developing Systems to Identify Risk and Prevent Harm  6. Ecological Validity and Risk Management in Forensic Mental Health Services  7. Talking and Taking Risks: An Exploration of Women’s Perceptions of Antenatal Testing in Pregnancy  8. Constructing Virtual Selves: Men Risk and the Rehearsal of Sexual Identities  9. Reframing Risk: How Risk Discourses are used by Vaccine Critical Groups in the UK

Descriere

Focusing on the connections between health, risk, and insecurity, this book reflects upon the meaning and significance of risk across a broad range of social and institutional contexts, offering new perspectives on an important field of contemporary debate.