| Description |
ix, 165 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Health risk and vulnerability: an introduction / Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson -- Unlimited medicalization? risk and the pathologization of normality / John-Arne Skolbekken -- Community care, risk and the shifting focus of danger and vulnerability in mental health / Joanne Warner -- Governmentality and the subpolitics of teenage sexual risk behaviour / Joost Van Loon -- Restructuring health care: developing systems to identify risk and prevent harm / Andy Alaszewski and Kirstie Coxon -- Ecological validity and risk management in forensic mental health services / Jacqueline Daves, Paul Godin and Bob Heyman -- Talking and taking risks: an exploration of women's perceptions of antenatal -- Testing in pregnancy / Dawn S. Jones -- Constructing virtual selves: men risk and the rehearsal of sexual identities / Anthony Pryce -- Reframing risk: how risk discourses are used by vaccine critical groups in the -- Uk / Pru Hobson-West |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health behavior.
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Health attitudes.
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Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
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Health risk assessment -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Petersen, Alan R., 1953-
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Wilkinson, Iain, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2007018244 |
| ISBN |
9780415383073 hardback |
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0415383072 hardback |
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9780415383080 paperback |
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0415383080 paperback |
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