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Food, the body and the self
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ISBN: 0803976488 080397647X 1446221768 1283881330 1446264157 1446231690 9781446264157 9781446221761 9780803976481 9780803976474 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Sage

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This book is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating. The author explores the relationship between food and embodiment childhood and family & the social construction of food & eating.

Risk and sociocultural theory: new directions and perspectives
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ISBN: 0521645549 0521642078 0511520778 9780521645546 9780521642071 9780511520778 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it reflects the fact that risk has become integral to contemporary understandings of selfhood, the body and social relations, and is central to the work of writers such as Douglas, Beck, Giddens and the Foucauldian theorists. The contributors are all leading scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural and media studies and cultural anthropology. Combining empirical analyses with metatheoretical critiques, they tackle an unusually diverse range of topics including drug use, risk in the workplace, fear of crime and the media, risk and pregnant embodiment, the social construction of danger in childhood, anxieties about national identity, the governmental uses of risk and the relationship between risk phenomena and social order.


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Medicine as culture : illness, disease and the body
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ISBN: 9781446208953 9781446208946 9781446258637 1446258637 9781446254530 1446254534 144620894X 1446208958 128224132X 9786613812445 1446291731 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Sage

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Medicine as Culture is unlike any other sociological text on health and medicine. It combines perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, social history, cultural geography, and media and cultural studies. The book explores the ways in which medicine and health care are sociocultural constructions, ranging from popular media and elite cultural representations of illness to the power dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship. The Third Edition has been updated to cover new areas of interest, including: studies of space and place in relation to the body; actor-network theory as it is applied in research related to medicine; the internet and social media and how they contribute to lay health knowledge and patient support; complementary and alternative medicine; obesity and fat politics. Contextualising introductions and discussion points in every chapter makes Medicine as Culture, Third Edition a rigorous yet accessible text for students.--

Moral threats and dangerous desires: AIDS in the news media
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ISBN: 0748401806 9780748401802 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Taylor & Francis

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The imperative of health: public health and the regulated body
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ISBN: 0803979363 9780803979352 0803979355 9780803979369 1446265846 9780803979363 9781446265840 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Sage

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In this reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies, Deborah Lupton explores public health and health promotion using contemporary sociocultural and political theory, particularly that building on Foucault's writings on subjectivity, embodiment and power relations.

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Sociology of health --- Public health. --- Medicine, Preventive. --- Health Promotion. --- Public Health. --- Health Policy. --- Social Medicine. --- #SBIB:316.334.3M11 --- #SBIB:316.334.3M30 --- Medicine, Social --- Public Health --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policies, National --- Health Policy, National --- National Health Policies --- Policies, Health --- Policies, National Health --- Policy, Health --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Promotional Items --- Health Campaigns --- Promotion of Health --- Wellness Programs --- Campaign, Health --- Campaigns, Health --- Health Campaign --- Health Promotions --- Item, Promotional --- Items, Promotional --- Program, Wellness --- Programs, Wellness --- Promotion, Health --- Promotional Item --- Promotions, Health --- Wellness Program --- Health Education --- Preventive Health Services --- Disease prevention --- Diseases --- Prevention of disease --- Preventive medicine --- Pathology --- Preventive health services --- Preventive medicine physicians --- Public health --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Medische sociologie: concepten en theorieën --- Medische sociologie: gezondheidsgedrag --- Prevention --- Health Promotion --- Health Policy --- Social Medicine --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Healthcare Policy --- Healthcare Policies --- Policy, Healthcare --- Health Care Policies --- Care Policies, Health --- Health Care Policy --- Policies, Health Care --- Policies, Healthcare --- Policy, Health Care

The emotional self : a sociocultural exploration.
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ISBN: 0761956026 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Sage

Medicine as culture : illness, disease and the body in Western societies.
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ISBN: 9780761940302 0761940308 0761940294 9780761940296 9786610368495 661036849X 1280368497 1412932807 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Sage


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The quantified self : a sociology of self-tracking
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ISBN: 9781509500604 9781509500598 1509500596 150950060X Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote ‘self knowledge through numbers’. In this ground-breaking book, Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood, human embodiment and the value of data that underpin them. The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking as well as the proliferating ways in which people’s personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines the ways in which the information that is generated by self-tracking now taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. Self-tracking has broader implications, therefore, for the ways in which personal data practices are intertwined with big data politics


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Digital sociology
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ISBN: 9781138022768 9781138022775 9781315776880 9781317691792 9781317691808 1138022764 1138022772 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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"New digital media technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life and social relations for many people in developed societies, and increasingly in developing societies. Preschools and child-care centres are now starting to advertise that they offer tablet computers as part of their facilities. At the other end of the lifespan, Wiis are used to support mobility for the residents of aged care facilities and social media and self-tracking devices are being introduced to older people to assist them in living independently. Digital technologies are also increasingly used for political purposes, including social activism, as well for criminal activities. Digital sociology provides a means by which the impact, development and use of these technologies and their incorporation into social worlds and concepts of selfhood may be investigated, analysed and understood"-- "We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and dissemination of knowledge. People's movements in space, their purchasing habits and their online communication with others are now monitored in detail by digital technologies. We are increasingly becoming digital data subjects, whether we like it or not, and whether we choose this or not.The sub-discipline of digital sociology provides a means by which the impact, development and use of these technologies and their incorporation into social worlds, social institutions and concepts of selfhood and embodiment may be investigated, analysed and understood. This book introduces a range of interesting social, cultural and political dimensions of digital society and discusses some of the important debates occurring in research and scholarship on these aspects. It covers the new knowledge economy and big data, reconceptualising research in the digital era, the digitisation of higher education, the diversity of digital use, digital politics and citizen digital engagement, the politics of surveillance, privacy issues, the contribution of digital devices to embodiment and concepts of selfhood and many other topics.Digital Sociology is essential reading not only for students and academics in sociology, anthropology, media and communication, digital cultures, digital humanities, internet studies, science and technology studies, cultural geography and social computing, but for other readers interested in the social impact of digital technologies. "--

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