Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Medicine, health and risk : sociological approaches

Publication: Oxford : Blackwell, 1995Physical description: 176 p. ; 23 cmSeries: (Sociology of health & illness)Notes: Sumario: Perceptions of health risks and their management (A user's guide to contrasting theories of HIV-related risk behaviour. Risk, the real world and naive sociology) -- The risk acceptability of medical interventions (The medical model of the body as a site of risk: a case study of childbirth. The risk of resistance: perspectives on the mass childhood immunisation programme) -- Social movements, public health risks and the policy process (Popular epidemiology, toxic waste and social movements. Public health risks in the material world: barriers to social movements in health) -- The social construction of health risks and their regulation (Boundaries of danger and uncertainty: an analysis of the technological culture of risk assessment. Prevention as a problem of modernity: the example of HIV and AIDS)Materia / lugar / evento: Salud Aspectos sociales Casos prácticos Gran Bretaña Percepción del riesgo Evaluación de riesgos Epidemiología Otros autores: Gabe, Jonathan
Secondary series: Sociology of health & illness Other categories: 931Standard numbers: ISBN 0-631-19484-3

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