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Risk

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Psychology Press, 1999 - Social Science - 184 pages
We are now living in a 'risk' society: risk analysis, risk assessment and risk management are ever-expanding industries.
In this lively and engaging introduction to one of todays major sociocultural concepts, Deborah Lupton examines why risk has come to such prominence at this particular point in history. She traces how risk has been constructed over time from pre-modernity to the modern era and provides an introduction to the main theories surrounding the subject.^l Including examples of the ways in which risk is experienced in everyday life, Lupton covers a wide range of issues including:
* risk and culture
* sociocultural and scientific perspectives
* blame, danger and trust
* risk and pleasure.
  

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A really accessible and concise review of the ways risk is constructed in the modern (Western) world. Covers various perspectives, offers useful comparisons, and provides clear examples for some ... Read full review

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
CHANGES IN THE MEANING OF RISK
5
THIS BOOK
13
THEORIZING RISK
17
SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
24
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST POSITIONS
28
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
33
RISK AND CULTURE
36
FROM DANGEROUSNESS TO RISK
91
CONTEMPORARY RISK STRATEGIES
95
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
102
RISK AND SUBJECTIVITY
104
RISK KNOWLEDGES AND REFLEXIVITY
105
SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND POWER RELATIONS
113
AESTHETIC AND HABITUAL DIMENSIONS
118
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
122

THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURE
37
PURITY DANGER AND THE BODY
39
RISK AND BLAME
45
THE GRIDGROUP MODEL
49
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
55
RISK AND REFLEXIVE MODERNIZATION
58
BECK AND THE RISK SOCIETY
59
REFLEXIVE MODERNIZATION
65
INDIVIDUALIZATION
69
GIDDENS PERSPECTIVES ON RISK
72
TRUST
77
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
81
RISK AND GOVERNMENTALITY
84
GOVERNMENTALITY
85
RISK AND OTHERNESS
123
EMBODIMENT
124
HYBRIDITY AND LIMINALITY
129
THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF OTHERNESS
137
SPATIALITY AND OTHERNESS
142
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
147
RISK AND PLEASURE
148
ESCAPE ATTEMPTS AND EDGEWORK
149
RISKTAKING AS GENDERED PERFORMANCES
157
DESIRE AND TRANSGRESSION
163
CONCLUDING COMMENTS
171
BIBLIOGRAPHY
173
INDEX
181
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Social Science & Medicine : Risk: Deborah Lupton, Routledge, New ...
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Risk Books: Risks in Everyday Life
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Risk management is applied in innumerable areas of life and society. They include: business and finance, government, science, health, statistics, ...
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Risk Assessment Critique: Part 2
Judith Bradbury (full text article) describes three approaches to risk assessment and the risk communication strategy most closely associated with each one. ...
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Health & Social Care in the Community - Fulltext: Volume 12(4 ...
Tulloch and Lupton's Risk and Everyday Life is explicitly designed to overcome this ... Expert knowledge is increasingly needed to identify and manage risk, ...
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Biopolitics of Security : Research Resources
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`Risk is Part of Your Life': Risk Epistemologies Among a Group of ...
Much has been written by important sociocultural theorists about the role played by risk in late modern societies, and some, like Beck and Giddens, ...
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About the author (1999)

Deborah Lupton is Associate Professor in Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy and Director of the Centre for Cultural Risk Research at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her latest books include The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk (1996) and The Emotional Self (1998).

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