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Title:

Health, risk and vulnerability / edited by Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

ix, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Health behavior.
Health attitudes.
Risk-taking (Psychology)--Social aspects.
Health risk assessment--Social aspects.
Health Behavior.
Attitude to Health.
Cultural Characteristics.
Health Policy.
Risk Management.
Risk-Taking.
Gezondheid.
Gedrag.
Risico nemen
Risicoanalyse.
Sociale aspecten.

Other Authors:

Petersen, Alan R., Ph. D.
Wilkinson, Iain, 1969-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Health risk and vulnerability : an introduction / Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson -- Unlimited medicalization? : risk and the pathologization of normality / John-Arne Skolbekken -- Community care, risk and the shifting locus of danger and vulnerability in mental health / Joanne Warner -- Governmentality and the subpolitics of teenage sexual risk behaviour / Joost Van Loon -- Restructuring health care : developing systems to identify risk and prevent harm / Andy Alaszewski and Kirstie Coxon -- Ecological validity and risk management in forensic mental health services / Jacqueline Davies ... [et al.] -- Talking and taking risks : an exploration of women's perceptions of antenatal testing in pregnancy / Dawn S. Jones -- Constructing virtual selves : men, risk and the rehearsal of sexual identities and scripts in cyber chatrooms / Anthony Pryce -- Reframing risk : how risk discourses are used by Vaccine Critical groups in the UK / Pru Hobson-West.

ISBN:

0415383080 (pbk.)
9780415383080 (pbk.)
0415383072 (hbk.)
9780415383073 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2007018244

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)