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  • EMOTIONS ONLINE
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    EMOTIONS ONLINE
    ALAN PETERSEN
    Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. While the internet, mobile phones, and social media offer their users many options, they also engender concerns about their manipulations and intrusions. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people’s e...

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  • DIGITAL HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROMISE
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    DIGITAL HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROMISE
    ALAN PETERSEN
    What is ‘digital health’? And, what are its implications for medicine and healthcare, and for individual citizens and society? ‘Digital health’ is of growing interest to policymakers, clinicians, and businesses. It is underpinned by promise and optimism, with predictions that digital technologies and related innovations will soon ‘transform’ medicine and healthcare, and enable ...

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  • THE POLITICS OF BIOETHICS
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    THE POLITICS OF BIOETHICS
    ALAN PETERSEN
    Recent rapid advances in the biosciences have led to considerable debate about the social, ethical, and legal implications of research and its applications. The mapping of the human genome, advances in cloning techniques, the harvesting of embryonic stem cells for research, increasing use of genetic testing in healthcare, and the development of large-scale genetic databases hav...

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  • HEALTH, RISK AND VULNERABILITY
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    HEALTH, RISK AND VULNERABILITY
    ALAN PETERSEN
    The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research. Risk attitudes and behaviours are understood to comprise the dominant experience of culture, politics and society in our times. Health, Risk and Vulnerability investigates the personal and political dimensions of health risk th...

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  • THE BODY IN QUESTION
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    THE BODY IN QUESTION
    ALAN PETERSEN
    Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in ‘the body’ in contemporary societies? What factors shape our conceptions of the body, its naturalness, health and normality? What is the mind-body dualism and why should it matter? This book examines these and other body questions from a critical socio-cultural perspective. In particular, it shows how conceptio...

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  • POSTSTRUCTURALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL POLICY
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    POSTSTRUCTURALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL POLICY
    IAN BARNS / JANICE DUDLEY / PATRICIA HARRIS / ALAN PETERSEN
    Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy shows how poststructuralist ideas can be usefully applied in the areas of welfare, health, education and science and technology policy, making particular reference to the theme of citizenship. The impact of poststructuralism on thinking in the social sciences and humanities over the last decade has been profound. However, to date...

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  • THE NEW GENETICS AND THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH
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    THE NEW GENETICS AND THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH
    ROBIN BUNTON / ALAN PETERSEN
    The rapid advancement of genetic science, fuelled by the Human Genome Project and other related initiatives, promises a new kind of public health practice based on the pre-detection of disease according to calculations of genetic risk. This book by two well-known sociologists: * explores the implications of the new genetics for public health as a body of knowledge and a domain ...

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  • FOUCAULT, HEALTH AND MEDICINE
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    FOUCAULT, HEALTH AND MEDICINE
    BUNTON, ROBIN / PETERSEN, ALAN
    The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology...

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  • THE NEW PUBLIC HEALTH
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    THE NEW PUBLIC HEALTH
    ALAN PETERSEN / DEBORAH LUPTON
    Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other. They also explore the implications of modernist belief in the power of science and the ability of experts to so...

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