Product Description: Aging Men explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely reconsideration of the conceptualisation of aging men within the recent explosion of science studies on men’s health and biotechnologies including anti-aging perspectives...read more

Taking a different approach to biobanks, this book draws attention to their political and governance implications. It argues that for biobanks to be created, shaped, maintained, and to operate properly, a number of interrelated conditions need to exist, from legal environment to funding mechanisms and social acceptance.

Product Description: Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in ‘the body’ in contemporary societies? What factors shape our conceptions of the body, its naturalness, health and normality? What is the mind-body dualism and why should it matter? This book examines these and other body questions from a critical socio-cultural perspective...read more

The rapid development of genetic science fuelled by the Human Genome Project and other related initiatives promises a new kind of public health practice. The technological achievements and genetic information now available have completely revolutionized the possibilities for medical practice and the treatment of illness as we have previously known it. New Genetics and the New Public Health explores the implications this new body of knowledge has for the public health arena. This insightful new contribution to the ongoing controversy on genetic sciences situates the debate in relation to health care, providing a stimulating critique of current research and practice.

Product Description: This text presents late-1990s perspectives and empirical evidence in the sociology of health, focusing upon inequalities in health and illness, healthcare and prevention. Chapters cover ethnicity and health; perspectives on the body; the study of health and the emotions; postmodernism and health; psychiatric disability and community-based care; health and the discourse of weight control; the health consumers perspective; health status in developing economies; healthcare and the popular media; medical practice and medical authority; and inequalities in healthcare in late modern societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Postmodernism and poststructuralism have undermined the assumptions upon which established identities have been constructed, such as the concept of stable bodies and stable selves. Sex, gender, sexuality and race are no longer viewed as merely descriptive aspects of experience but also as constructions of identity...read more

Product Description: Postmodernism and poststructuralism have undermined the assumptions upon which established identities have been constructed, such as the concept of stable bodies and stable selves. Sex, gender, sexuality and race are no longer viewed as merely descriptive aspects of experience but also as constructions of identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other...read more

Product Description: Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)