Description
Charts new terrain in the sociology of health, risk, and insecurity
Expert international specialist contributors offer in-depth, up-to-date coverage of issues not covered in any other book
Table of Contents
1. Health Risk and Vulnerability: An Introduction 2. Unlimited Medicalization?: Risk and the Pathologization of Normality 3. Community Care, Risk and the Shifting Focus of Danger and Vulnerability in Mental Health 4. Governmentality and the Subpolitics of Teenage Sexual Risk Behaviour 5. Restructuring Health Care: Developing Systems to Identify Risk and Prevent Harm 6. Ecological Validity and Risk Management in Forensic Mental Health Services 7. Talking and Taking Risks: An Exploration of Women’s Perceptions of Antenatal Testing in Pregnancy 8. Constructing Virtual Selves: Men Risk and the Rehearsal of Sexual Identities 9. Reframing Risk: How Risk Discourses are used by Vaccine Critical Groups in the UK
