Medicine, health, and risk : sociological approaches /
Saved in:
| Imprint: | Oxford, Eng. ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1995. |
|---|---|
| Description: | p. cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sociology of health & illness monograph series ; 1 Sociology of health and illness monograph series ; 1. |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2387847 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Health, medicine and risk: The need for a sociological approach
- 2. Perceptions of Health Risks and their Management
- A User's guide to Contrasting Theories of HIV-Related Risk Behaviour
- Risk. the real world and naive sociology
- 3. The Risk Acceptability of Medical Interventions
- The Medical Model of the Body as a Site of Risk: A Case Study of Childbirth
- The Risk of Resistance: Perspectives on the Mass Childhood Immunisation Programme
- 4. Social Movements, Public Health Risks and the Policy Process
- Popular Epidemiology, Toxic Waste and Social Movements
- Public Health Risks in the Material World: Barriers to Social Movements in Health Policy
- 5. The Social Construction of Health Risks and their Regulation
- Boundaries of Danger and Uncertainty: An Analysis of the Technological Culture of Risk Assessment
- Prevention as a Problem of Modernity: The Example of HIV and AIDS
- Index
