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Health, Risk and Vulnerability
About this book
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:
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- the 'escalation of the medicalization of life', involving the pathologization of normality and blurring of the divide between clinical and preventive medicine
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- the tendency for mental health service users to be regarded as representing a risk to others rather than being 'at risk' and vulnerable themselves
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- the development of health care systems to identify risk and prevent harm
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- women's reactions to 'high risk' screening results during pregnancy and how they communicate with other women about risk
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- 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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Yes, you can access Health, Risk and Vulnerability by Alan Petersen,Iain Wilkinson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Health Care Delivery. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Health, Risk and Vulnerability: An Introduction
- Chapter 2: Unlimited Medicalization? Risk and the Pathologization of Normality
- Chapter 3: Community Care, Risk and the Shifting Locus of Danger and Vulnerability In Mental Health
- Chapter 4: Governmentality and the Subpolitics of Teenage Sexual Risk Behaviour
- Chapter 5: Restructuring Health Care: Developing Systems to Identify Risk and Prevent Harm
- Chapter 6: Ecological Validity and Risk Management In Forensic Mental Health Services
- Chapter 7: Talking and Taking Risks: An Exploration of Women’s Perceptions of Antenatal Testing In Pregnancy
- Chapter 8: Constructing Virtual Selves: Men, Risk and the Rehearsal of Sexual Identities and Scripts In Cyber Chatrooms
- Chapter 9: Reframing Risk: How Risk Discourses Are Used By Vaccine Critical Groups In the UK