Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power

ISBN-13: 9780367597641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

John Martyn Chamberlain

Opis

This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters written by professional practitioners and social scientists from the UK, South America, Australia

Spis treści

1. An Introduction to Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power  John Martyn Chamberlain  2. Sociology and Risk: A Link in Permanent (Re)Construction  Fiorella Mancini  3. Time, Risk and Health  Andy Alaszewski and Patrick Brown  4. Using Medicines in the Face of Uncertainty: Developing a Habermasian Understanding of Medicines’ Lifeworlds  Patrick Brown  5. Performing Risk and Power: Predictive Technologies in Personalized Medicine  Nadav Even Chorev  6. Balancing Risk and Recovery in Mental Health: An Analysis of the Way in Which Policy Objectives Around Risk and Recovery Affect Professional Practice in England  Jeremy Dixon  7. Moving from Gut Feeling to Evidence: The Case of Social Work  Gemma Mitchell  8. Regulating for Safer Doctors in the Risk Society  John Martyn Chamberlain  9. Health Experts Challenge the Safety of Pesticides in Argentina and Brazil  Renata Motta and Florencia Arancibia  10. Changing Discourses of Risk and Health-Risk: A Corpus Analysis of the Usage of Risk Language in The New York Times  Jens O. Zinn and Daniel McDonald

O autorze

John Martyn Chamberlain is Associate Professor in Medical Criminology at the University of Southampton.