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Volume 17 Issue 2 - 2008

Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives

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Research Articles

124 Guest Editorial: Introduction: Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Christine Beasley, Megan Warin

129 Hazardous good intentions? Unintended consequences of the project of prevention
Dorothy H Broom

141 Biopolitical technologies of prevention
Rosalyn Diprose

151 The challenge of pleasure: Re-imagining sexuality and sexual health
Christine Beasley

165 The politics of research management: Reflections on the gap between what we ‘know’ (about SDH) and what we do
Carol Bacchi

177 Trust in the health system: An analysis and extension of the social theories of Giddens and Luhmann
Samantha Meyer, Paul Ward, John Coveney, Wendy Rogers

187 Consuming bodies: Mall walking and the possibilities of consumption
Megan Warin, Vivienne Moore, Michael Davies, Karen Turner

199 The government of girth
John Coveney

Book Reviews

214 Understanding Treatment without Consent: An Analysis of the Work of the Mental Health Commission
Ian Shaw, Hugh Middleton and Jeffrey Cohen (eds)
Reviewed by Pauline Savy

216 Social Causes of Health and Disease
William C. Cockerham
Reviewed by Mildred Blaxter

217 The Blackwell Companion to Social Work (3rd Edition)
Martin Davies (ed)
Reviewed by Fiona Gardner

219 A Social History of Dying
Allan Kellahear
Reviewed by Norelle Lickiss

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Vol 18/2, 1st Jun 2009


Social Determinants of Child Health and Wellbeing
Vol 18/1, 1st Mar 2009


Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for Biomedicine?
Vol 17/4, 1st Dec 2008


Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People
Vol 17/3, 1st Oct 2008


Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Vol 17/2, 1st Aug 2008


Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
Vol 16/5, 1st Dec 2007


Social Equity and Health
Vol 16/2, 1st Jun 2007


Medical Dominance Revisited
Vol 15/5, 1st Dec 2006


Childbirth, Politics & the Culture of Risk
Vol 15/4, 1st Oct 2006


Revisiting Sexualities and Health
Vol 15/3, 1st Aug 2006


Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill: Social Consequences
Vol 14/3, 1st Dec 2005


Workplace Health: The Injuries of Neoliberalism
Vol 14/1, 1st Aug 2005


Symposium on Rural Health: Patients and Practitioners
Vol 13/2, 1st Dec 2004


Symposium on Women's Health
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Symposium on Indigenous Health and the Contribution of Sociology
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Selected Articles

Redefining the subject?: The influence of Foucault on the sociology of health and illness
Alan R. Petersen


Handling Uncertainty
Jennifer Sarah Hester-Moore


'Now We Can Drink, Too'
Barbara Wolska, Sherry Saggers, Lynne Hunt


Is Social Capital Good for Everyone?
Jane Edwards, Brian Cheers PhD


Surveillance, Support and Risk in the Postnatal Period
Maria Zadoroznyj


Personal troubles, public issues, and the reflexive practice of research
Deborah Warr


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