Medicine, Health and Risk: Sociological Approaches

ISBN: 978-0-631-19484-2

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January 1996, Wiley-Blackwell

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1. Health, medicine and risk: The need for a sociological approach: Jonathan Gabe.

2. Perceptions of Health Risks and their Management. .

A User's guide to Contrasting Theories of HIV-Related Risk Behaviour: Mick Bloor (University of Wales College of Cardiff).

Risk. the real world and naive sociology: Anne Grinyer.

3. The Risk Acceptability of Medical Interventions. .

The Medical Model of the Body as a Site of Risk: A Case Study of Childbirth: Karen Lane (Deakin University).

The Risk of Resistance: Perspectives on the Mass Childhood Immunisation Programme: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim (University of Central Lancashire).

4. Social Movements, Public Health Risks and the Policy Process. .

Popular Epidemiology, Toxic Waste and Social Movements: Phil Brown (Brown University).

Public Health Risks in the Material World: Barriers to Social Movements in Health Policy: Paul Bissell, Jennie Popay and Gareth Williams (Manchester University, Salford University).

5. The Social Construction of Health Risks and their Regulation.

Boundaries of Danger and Uncertainty: An Analysis of the Technological Culture of Risk Assessment: Simon Carter (University of Glasgow).

Prevention as a Problem of Modernity: The Example of HIV and AIDS: Sue Scott and Richard Freeman (University of Stirling, University of Dundee).

Notes on Contributors.

Index.