Title: Risk, culture, and health inequality : shifting perceptions of danger and blame /
Authors: Harthorn, Barbara Herr, 1951-; Oaks, Laury, 1967-
Publisher: Praeger,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Socioeconomic Factors; Risk Factors; Public Health; Health risk assessment; Equality Health aspects; Public health Social aspects.; Applied anthropology
Contents: Foreword: The Social Meanings of Risk / Dorothy Nelkin -- Introduction: Health and the Social and Cultural Construction of Risk / Laury Oaks and Barbara Herr Harthorn -- Harm Reduction: A Core Concern for Medical Anthropology / Mark Nichter -- Autonomy, Danger, and Choice: The Moral Imperative of an "At Risk" Pregnancy for a Group of Low-Income Latinas in Texas / Linda M. Hunt and Katherine B. de Voogd -- The Risks of Test-Tube Baby Making in Egypt / Marcia C. Inhorn -- The Politics of Health Risk Warnings: Social Movements and Controversy over the Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer / Laury Oaks -- Exporting Risk: The Cultural Politics of Regulating Traditional Medicine in Northeast Brazil / Jessica Jerome -- Risk, Remediation, and the Stigma of a Technological Accident in an African American Community / Theresa A. Satterfield -- Safe Exposure? Perceptions of Health Risks from Agricultural Chemicals among California Farmworkers / Barbara Herr Harthorn -- Governing Migrants' Sexual Behavior: Work, HIV/AIDS, and Condom Use Campaigns in Southeast Asia / Peter Chua -- Genetically Modified Foods: Shared Risk and Global Action / Francesca Bray -- Risk, Ethics, and the Public Space: The Impact of BSE and Foot-and-Mouth Disease on Public Thinking / Jo Murphy-Lawless.