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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: British Sociological Association. Annual Conference (Author)
Other Authors: Scott, Sue (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Series:Routledge library editions. British Sociological Association ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Social medicine > Congresses.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Social medicine.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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