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

MAP20070025730

Medicine, health and risk : sociological approaches / edited by Jonathan Gabe. — Oxford : Blackwell, 1995

176 p. ; 23 cm . — (Sociology of health & illness)

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)

ISBN 0-631-19484-3

1. Salud . 2. Aspectos sociales . 3. Casos prácticos . 4. Gran Bretaña . 5. Percepción del riesgo . 6. Evaluación de riesgos . 7. Epidemiología . I. Gabe, Jonathan . II. Sociology of health & illness . III. Title.

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