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Private risks and public dangers /

"Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, and they address a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: British Sociological Association. Annual Conference (Autor)
Otros Autores: Scott, Sue (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Colección:Routledge library editions. British Sociological Association ; v. 21.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Health and the 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? Knowledges 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 men10 Quo vadis the special hospitals?; 11 The social relations of HIV testing technology; 12 Safety as a social value: A community approach; Index