Health, Risk and Vulnerability
Author:   Alan Petersen (Monash University, Australia) ,  Iain Wilkinson (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415383073


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   31 October 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Health, Risk and Vulnerability


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Author:   Alan Petersen (Monash University, Australia) ,  Iain Wilkinson (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780415383073


ISBN 10:   0415383072
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   31 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Health Risk and Vulnerability: An Introduction 2. Unlimited Medicalization?: Risk and the Pathologization of Normality 3. Community Care, Risk and the Shifting Focus of Danger and Vulnerability in Mental Health 4. Governmentality and the Subpolitics of Teenage Sexual Risk Behaviour 5. Restructuring Health Care: Developing Systems to Identify Risk and Prevent Harm 6. Ecological Validity and Risk Management in Forensic Mental Health Services 7. Talking and Taking Risks: An Exploration of Women’s Perceptions of Antenatal Testing in Pregnancy 8. Constructing Virtual Selves: Men Risk and the Rehearsal of Sexual Identities 9. Reframing Risk: How Risk Discourses are used by Vaccine Critical Groups in the UK

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Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia. Iain Wilkinson is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the sociology of risk and social theory. He convenes the BSA study group on Risk & Society.

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