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  • Pandemic Societies

    A Critical Public Health Perspective

    by Alan Petersen ...
    From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar.This important book explores the dimensions, dynamics and implications of emerging pandemic societies. Drawing on ideas from sociology and science and technology studies, it sheds new light on how pandemics ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Emotions Online

    Feelings and Affordances of Digital Media

    by 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 engagements with them ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Tarkine Mist

    by D. Alan Petersen ...
    We have two lives. The second begins when we realise we only have one.For Julius Tiberius Banks, a health crisis at thirty-two ends his first. In his second, he wants a better reason forbeing than the mountain of cash and the calculating trophy wife he'd gathered in the first.Progress is made, but less than two years later, his fleeting vision of that new life is stymied. Unknown people want him ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Politics of Bioethics

    by Alan Petersen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    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 have not only generated ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope

    by Alan Petersen, Megan Munsie, Claire Tanner, Casimir MacGregor, Jane Brophy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A growing number of patients are embarking on stem cell treatments that are clinically unproven and yet available in clinics and hospitals around the world. The authors offer a cutting-edge multi-dimensional perspective on this complex and rapidly changing phenomenon, including an ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Digital Health and Technological Promise

    A Sociological Inquiry

    by 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 individuals to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine

    Edited by Antje Kampf, Barbara L. Marshall, Alan Petersen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of social science ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Genetic Governance

    Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available, challenge our understandings of ourselves, our health and wellbeing, and the role of medical ethics, public health, surveillance and risk. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy

    by 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, there has been ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The New Genetics and The Public's Health

    by 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 of practice* assesses ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Foucault, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Robin Bunton, Alan Petersen ...
    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 of health and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Consuming Health

    The Commodification of Health Care

    Edited by Sara Henderson, Alan Petersen ...
    In our post-welfare society, health is increasingly viewed as a commodity and individuals are defined as 'health care consumers'. At the same time, the notion that the state should care for the health of its citizens is being replaced by an expectation that citizens should play a more active role in caring for themselves. These developments are by no means uncontentious.Consuming Health explores ... Read more

    $59.99 USD