Volume 17 Issue 2 - 2008

Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives

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Research Articles

124-128 Guest Editorial: Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Christine Beasley, Megan Warin
129-140 Hazardous good intentions?: Unintended consequences of the project of prevention
Dorothy H Broom
141-150 Biopolitical technologies of prevention
Rosalyn Diprose
151-163 The challenge of pleasure: Re-imagining sexuality and sexual health
Christine Beasley
165-176 The politics of research management: Reflections on the gap between what we ‘know’ (about SDH) and what we do
Carol Bacchi
177-186 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
187-198 Consuming bodies: Mall walking and the possibilities of consumption
Megan Warin, Vivienne Moore, Michael Davies, Karen Turner
199-213 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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