A reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies which attempts to show that health represents a moral imperative embedded in social and cultural norms and expressed in public policies.
A reappraisal of public health and health promotion in contemporary societies which attempts to show that health represents a moral imperative embedde...
The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursing and cultural studies.
The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursin...
A prevailing excitement can be discerned in the medical and public health literature and popular media concerning the apparent disruptive or revolutionary potential of digital health technologies. Most of the wider social implications are often ignored or glossed over in such accounts. Critical approaches from within the social sciences that take a more measured perspective are important including those that focus on risk. The contributors to this volume examine various dimensions of risk in the context of digital health. They identify that digital health devices and software offer the...
A prevailing excitement can be discerned in the medical and public health literature and popular media concerning the apparent disruptive or revolu...
We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and dissemination of knowledge. People s movements in space, their purchasing habits and their online communication with others are now monitored in detail by digital technologies. We are increasingly becoming digital data subjects, whether we like it or not, and whether we choose this or not.
The sub-discipline of digital sociology provides a means by which the impact, development and use of...
We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, co...
We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and dissemination of knowledge. People s movements in space, their purchasing habits and their online communication with others are now monitored in detail by digital technologies. We are increasingly becoming digital data subjects, whether we like it or not, and whether we choose this or not.
The sub-discipline of digital sociology provides a means by which the impact, development and use of...
We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, co...
