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Medicine, health, and risk : sociological approaches
- Title
- Medicine, health, and risk : sociological approaches / edited by Jonathan Gabe.
- Publication
- Oxford, Eng. ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1995.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gabe, Jonathan
- Description
- 176 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Medicine, Health and Risk offers a lively appraisal of the range of personal and public health issues facing people and experts in Britain and other industrial countries.
- In particular it focuses on the manner in which people perceive and manage health risk in different settings; the risk acceptability of various medical interventions; the opportunities and constraints on social movements to influence the policy process with regard to public health risks and the way that health risks are socially constructed and regulated.
- Through case studies and overviews of health risks from medical interventions, occupational practices, social life and environmental hazards the contributors address a range of questions including the following: What role do social, cultural and institutional processes play in perception of health risks? To what extent do calculations about the probability of health risks or the acceptability of medical interventions influence the decisions and actions of specific social groups?
- How are health risks constructed and legitimated by scientists, governments and social movements? How do expert discourses on health risks throw light on key elements of social order and cultural change?
- Series Statement
- Sociology of health & illness monograph series ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Sociology of health and illness monograph series ; 1.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Health, medicine and risk: The need for a sociological approach / Jonathan Gabe -- 1. A user's guide to contrasting theories of HIV-related risk behaviour / Michael Bloor -- 2. Risk, the real world and naive sociology / Anne Grinyer -- 3. The medical model of the body as a site of risk: a case study of childbirth / Karen Lane -- 4. The risk of resistance: perspectives on the mass childhood immunisation programme / Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim -- 5. Popular epidemiology, toxic waste and social movements / Phil Brown -- 6. Public health risks in the material world: barriers to social movements in health / Gareth Williams, Jennie Popay and Paul Bissell -- 7. Boundaries of danger and uncertainty: an analysis of the technological culture of risk assessment / Simon Carter -- 8. Prevention as a problem of modernity: the example of HIV and AIDS / Sue Scott and Richard Freeman.
- ISBN
- 0631194843
- LCCN
- 95014115
- OCLC
- ocm32465075
- SCSB-4778709
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries