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Volume 17 Issue 2 - 2008

Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives

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Research Articles

124 Guest Editorial: 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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