Private Risks and Public Dangers

Herausgeber: Platt, Stephen; Williams, Gareth; Scott, Sue; Thomas, Hilary

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Produktbeschreibung

Private Risk and Public Dangers addresses a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and 'foetal alcohol syndrome' to the nature of accidents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780815348696
• ISBN-10: 081534869X
• Artikelnr.: 52770971

Inhaltsangabe

About the editors Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Foreword 1.
Introduction 2. Health and Social Body 3. Some Problems in the Development
of a Sociology of Accidents 4. The Idea of Prevention: A Critical Review 5.
Health, Harm or Happy Families? Knowledge of Incest in Twentieth Century
Parliamentary Debates 6. The Gaze of the Counsellors: Discourses of
Intervention in Marriage 7. 'To Hell with Tomorrow': Coronary Heart Disease
Risk and the Ethnography of Fatalism 8. More Medicalizing of Mothers:
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in the USA and Related Developments 9. 'What's Your
Excuse for Relapsing?': A Critique of Recent Sexual Behaviour Studies of
Gay Men 10. Quo Vadis the Special Hospitals? 11. The Social Relations of
HIV Testing Technology 12. Safety as a Social Value Index