{"product_id":"medicine-health-and-risk-isbn-9780631194842","title":"Medicine, Health and Risk","description":"The sociology of risk has only recently started to influence work in the area of health, illness and medicine and has considerable explanatory potential. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Medicine, Health and Risk \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e illustrates the value of this approach by providing case studies and overviews of health risks from medical interventions, occupational practices, social and domestic life and environmental hazards.  \u003cb\u003e1. Health, medicine and risk: The need for a sociological approach: Jonathan Gabe.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Perceptions of Health Risks and their Management.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA User's guide to Contrasting Theories of HIV-Related Risk Behaviour: Mick Bloor (University of Wales College of Cardiff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRisk. the real world and naive sociology: Anne Grinyer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Risk Acceptability of Medical Interventions.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Medical Model of the Body as a Site of Risk: A Case Study of Childbirth: Karen Lane (Deakin University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Risk of Resistance: Perspectives on the Mass Childhood Immunisation Programme: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim (University of Central Lancashire).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Social Movements, Public Health Risks and the Policy Process.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopular Epidemiology, Toxic Waste and Social Movements: Phil Brown (Brown University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Health Risks in the Material World: Barriers to Social Movements in Health Policy: Paul Bissell, Jennie Popay and Gareth Williams (Manchester University, Salford University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The Social Construction of Health Risks and their Regulation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoundaries of Danger and Uncertainty: An Analysis of the Technological Culture of Risk Assessment: Simon Carter (University of Glasgow).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrevention as a Problem of Modernity: The Example of HIV and AIDS: Sue Scott and Richard Freeman (University of Stirling, University of Dundee).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathon Gabe\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely in the areas of mental health, health care professions, health policy and the mass media and health. He is a co-editor of the journal\u003ci\u003e Sociology of Health and Illness.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eMedicine, Health and Risk\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lively appraisal of the range of personal and public health issues facing lay people and experts in Britain and other industrialized countries. In particular it focuses on the manner in which people perceive and manage health risks in different settings; the risk acceptability of various medical interventions; the opportunities and constraints on social movements to influence the policy process with regard to public health risks and the way that health risks are socially constructed and regulated. \u003cp\u003eThrough case studies and overviews of health risks from medical interventions, occupational practices, social and domestic life and environmental hazards the contributors address a range of questions including the following: What role do social, cultural and institutional processes play in the perception of health risks? To what extent do calculations about the probability of health risks or the acceptability of medical interventions influence the decisions and actions of specific social groups? How are health risks constructed and legitimated by scientists, governments and social movements? How do expert discourses on health risks throw light on key elements of social order and cultural change?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in a clear and accessible style, \u003ci\u003eMedicine, Health and Risk\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to sociologists and policy analysts alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989603696869,"sku":"NP9780631194842","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631194842.jpg?v=1761784773","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/medicine-health-and-risk-isbn-9780631194842","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}