Health, risk, and vulnerability / edited by Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

x, 165 pages ; 23 cm

Health risk and vulnerability: an introduction / Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson -- Unlimited medicalization? risk and the pathologization of normality / John-Arne Skolbekken -- Community care, risk and the shifting focus of danger and vulnerability in mental health / Joanne Warner -- Governmentality and the subpolitics of teenage sexual risk behaviour / Joost Van Loon -- Restructuring health care: developing systems to identify risk and prevent harm / Andy Alaszewski and Kirstie Coxon -- Ecological validity and risk management in forensic mental health services / Jacqueline Daves, Paul Godin and Bob Heyman -- Talking and taking risks: an exploration of women's perceptions of antenatal -- Testing in pregnancy / Dawn S. Jones -- Constructing virtual selves: men risk and the rehearsal of sexual identities / Anthony Pryce -- Reframing risk: how risk discourses are used by vaccine critical groups in the -- Uk / Pru Hobson-West.

Includes bibliographical references and index.