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This 2005 book examines the formation of scientific knowledge about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and shows the broader cultural assumptions which grounded this knowledge. Alex Preda highlights the metaphors, narratives, and classifications which framed scientific hypotheses about the nature of the infectious agent and its transmission ways and compares these arguments with those used in the scientific knowledge about SARS. Through detailed rhetorical analysis of biomedical publications, the author shows how knowledge about epidemics is shaped by cultural narratives and categories of social thought. Preda situates his analysis in the broader frame of the world risk society, where scientific knowledge is called upon to support and shape public policies about prevention and health maintenance, among others. But can these policies avoid the influence of cultural narratives and of social classifications? The book shows how culture matters for prevention and health policies, as well as with respect to how scientific research is organized and funded.

#SBIB:316.334.3M20 --- #SBIB:053.AANKOOP --- Sociale epidemiologie en etiologie: sociale aspecten van ziekte en gezondheid --- AIDS (Disease) --- Medicine --- Rhetoric. --- Social medicine. --- Social aspects. --- Language. --- Rhetoric --- Social medicine --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Social aspects --- Language --- Health Workforce --- Social Sciences

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Alex Preda provides an ethnographic exploration of how financial expertise is performed and produced in the media, analyzing its features and how audiences react to it. He examines how analysts, anchors, and producers collaborate in manufacturing financial talk that circulates around the world.

Finance, Personal. --- Financial planners. --- Investment advisors. --- Fund managers (Investment advisors) --- Investment advisers --- Investment counselors --- Investment houses (Investment advisors) --- Investment management firms --- Money managers (Investment advisors) --- Consultants --- Financial planners --- Accredited personal financial specialists --- Planners --- Investment advisors --- Finance, Personal --- Financial management, Personal --- Financial planning, Personal --- Personal finance --- Personal financial management --- Personal financial planning --- Finance --- Financial literacy --- Planning --- Hong Kong. --- Irving Goffman. --- Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. --- TV and radio. --- business. --- ethnography. --- financial expertise. --- financial markets. --- financial talk. --- international finance. --- market interpretation. --- media studies. --- public-expert talk. --- social media influence. --- sociology of finance.

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Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. This publication brings together twenty-nine articles, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of finance in a globalized world, and its historical development. Topics include global institutions of modern finance, types of actors involved in financial transactions and supporting technologies, mortgage markets, rating agencies, and the role of financial economics. Particular attention is given to financial crises, which are discussed in a special section, as well as to alternative forms of finance, including Islamic finance and the rise of China.

Economic sociology --- Finance --- Business cycles --- Economics --- Financial institutions --- Sociological aspects

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Economic sociology --- Finance --- Business cycles --- Economics --- Financial institutions --- 333.600 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Financial intermediaries --- Lending institutions --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Funding --- Funds --- Currency question --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Sociological aspects --- Financiële markten. Kapitaalmarkten (algemeenheden) --- Social aspects