Health, Risk and Vulnerability (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Petersen, Alan; Wilkinson, Iain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134177066
• Artikelnr.: 42669647

Autorenporträt

Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia. Iain Wilkinson is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the sociology of risk and social theory. He convenes the BSA study group on Risk & Society.

Inhaltsangabe

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