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• Title:Health, risk and vulnerability / edited by Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Petersen, Alan R., 1953-
  Wilkinson, Iain, 1969-
  
• Published/Created:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W85 .H43498 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Health behavior.
  Health attitudes.
  Risk-taking (Psychology)--Social aspects.
  Health risk assessment--Social aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Health Behavior.
  Attitude to Health.
  Cultural Characteristics.
  Health Policy.
  Risk Management.
  Risk-Taking.
  
• Description:ix, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780415383080 (pbk.)
  0415383080 (pbk.)
  9780415383073 (hbk.)
  0415383072 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Health, risk and vulnerability: an introduction / Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson
  2. Unlimited medicalization? Risk and the pathologization of normality / John-Arne Skolbekken
  3. Community care, risk and the shifting locus of danger and vulnerability in mental health / Joanne Warner
  4. Governmentality and the subpolitics of teenage sexual risk behaviour / Joost van Loon
  5. Restructuring health care: developing systems to identify risk and prevent harm / Andy Alaszewski and Kirstie Coxon
  6. Ecological validity and risk management in forensic mental health services / Jacqueline Davies, Paul Godin, Bob Heyman and Lisa Reynolds and Monica Shaw
  7. Talking and taking risks: an exploration of women's perceptions of antenatal testing in pregnancy / Dawn S. Jones
  8. Constructing virtual selves: men, risk and the rehearsal of sexual identities and scripts in cyber chatrooms / Anthony Pryce
  9. Reframing risk: how risk discourses are used by Vaccine Critical groups in the UK / Pru Hobson-West.