Private Risks and Public Dangers
1st Edition
Published on 9. May 2018
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-0-8153-4869-6 (ISBN)
Description
Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, and they address a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and 'foetal alcohol syndrome' to the nature of accidents. These seemingly diverse social situations within which emerges is that we need a more sociologically informed understanding of the personal shading the public dangers they are expected to manage.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-4869-6 (9780815348696)
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Stephen Platt | Hilary Thomas | Sue Scott
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Stephen Platt | Hilary Thomas | Sue Scott
Private Risks and Public Dangers
E-Book
05/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€33.99
Available for download
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Content
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