Health, risk and vulnerability
By: edited by Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson
Contributors: Petersen, Alan R., Ph. D; Wilkinson, Iain, 1969-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780415383073; 9780415383080
Subjects: Health behavior; Health attitudes; Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Social aspects; Health risk assessment -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Health risk and vulnerability : an introduction / Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson; title: Unlimited medicalization? : risk and the pathologization of normality / John-Arne Skolbekken; title: Community care, risk and the shifting locus of danger and vulnerability in mental health / Joanne Warner; title: Governmentality and the subpolitics of teenage sexual risk behaviour / Joost Van Loon; title: Restructuring health care : developing systems to identify risk and prevent harm / Andy Alaszewski and Kirstie Coxon; title: Ecological validity and risk management in forensic mental health services / Jacqueline Davies ... [et al.]; title: Talking and taking risks : an exploration of women's perceptions of antenatal testing in pregnancy / Dawn S. Jones; title: Constructing virtual selves : men, risk and the rehearsal of sexual identities and scripts in cyber chatrooms / Anthony Pryce; title: Reframing risk : how risk discourses are used by Vaccine Critical groups in the UK / Pru Hobson-West