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Author:   Stephen Platt ,  Hilary Thomas ,  Sue Scott ,  Gareth Williams (Cardiff University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   21
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780815348696

ISBN 10:   081534869
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   09 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

About the editors Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Health and 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? Knowledge 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 Men 10. Quo Vadis the Special Hospitals? 11. The Social Relations of HIV Testing Technology 12. Safety as a Social Value Index

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