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  • The Quantified Self

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Medicine as Culture

    Illness, Disease and the Body

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Lupton′s newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever.Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of SydneyA welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist′s library.Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough UniversityMedicine as Culture introduces students to a broad range of cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Long COVID and Society

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Deborah Lupton ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited book focuses on the social aspects and impacts of Long COVID from an international perspective, including contributions from researchers in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands. USA and Australia. The book highlights how Long COVID affects people’s identities, social relationships, life opportunities and inclusion in society. Long COVID, like COVID itself, is a social and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Risk

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and institutions continue to avoid taking decisive action even when there is general agreement that a serious threat exists. Understanding how people, social groups and social organizations understand, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Internet of Animals

    Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including companion animals, wildlife, feral animals and livestock.In this book, Deborah Lupton explores how digital technologies and datafication are changing our relationships with other animals. Playfully building on the concept of 'The Internet of Things', she ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Data Selves

    More-than-Human Perspectives

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties.Using rich examples from popular culture and empirical research, Deborah Lupton develops a fresh and intriguing perspective on how people make sense of and use their ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Dystopian Emotions

    Emotional Landscapes and Dark Futures

    by Vern Smith, Geraint Harvey, Deborah Lupton, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Briohny Doyle, Gina Chin-Yi Yang, Kiran Grewal, Marlee Bower, Rebecca E. Olson ...
    As nations reel from the effects of poverty, inequality, climate change and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels as though the world has entered a period characterized by pessimism, cynicism and anxiety.This edited collection challenges individualized understandings of emotion, revealing how they relate to cultural, economic and political realities in difficult times.Combining numerous ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • COVID Societies

    Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    COVID Societies presents a compelling and accessible overview of key sociocultural theories that can help us make sense of the diverse, dynamic and complex elements of the COVID crisis. These include discussions of the political economy perspective; biopolitics; risk society and cultures; gender and queer theory; and more-than-human theory. The book provides insights into everyday life around the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Creative Approaches to Health Education

    New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Deborah Lupton, Deana Leahy ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Health and Education
    This book shows how creative methods, drawing on innovative arts-based and design-based approaches, can be employed in health education contexts. It takes a very broad view of ‘health education’, considering it as applying not only in school settings but across the lifespan, and as including physical education and sexuality education as well as public health campaigns, health activist initiatives ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The COVID-19 Crisis

    Social Perspectives

    Edited by Deborah Lupton, Karen Willis ...
    Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in people’s everyday lives as they confront restrictions imposed by physical distancing and consequences such as loss of work, working or learning from home and reduced contact with family and friends.This edited collection covers a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Food, the Body and the Self

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relationship between food and embodiment, the emotions and subjectivity. She includes discussion of the intertwining of food, meaning and culture in the context of childhood and the family, as well as: the gendered social construction of foodstuffs; food ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Risk and Everyday Life

    by Deborah Lupton, John Tulloch ...
    Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives.Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the authors examine how people define risk and what risks they see as affecting them, for example in relation to immigration, employment and family life. They emphasise the need to take account of the cultural ... Read more

    $94.49 USD