LIBROS DEL AUTOR: suzanne fraser

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  • Making Disease, Making Citizens
    Kate Seear / Suzanne Fraser
    Since the naming of hepatitis C in 1989, knowledge about the disease has grown exponentially. So too, however, has the stigma with which it is linked. Associated with injecting drug use and tainted blood scandals, hepatitis C inspires fear and blame. Making Disease, Making Citizens takes a timely look at the disease, those directly affected by it and its social and cultural imp...
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    95,20 €

  • Habits
    David Moore / Helen Keane / Suzanne Fraser
    What is ’addiction’? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? How are ideas about and responses to addiction changing, and what is at stake in these developments? These are the questions this book seeks to answer. Using Science and Technology Studies theory and an impressive range of international empirical data including interviews, ...
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    64,98 €

  • Vanity
    Claire Tanner / Janemaree Maher / Suzanne Fraser
    It has become something of a cliché that Western culture is obsessed with celebrity, glamour, and the opportunities ordinary people are now given (reality television, social networking sites, blogging) to become famous. These new engagements between fame and obscurity have been accompanied by energetic debates about the self, image and vanity. Similar debates are also underway ...
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    65,28 €

  • Making Disease, Making Citizens
    Kate Seear / Suzanne Fraser
    Adopting a feminist science and technology studies approach, this theoretically sophisticated, empirically informed analysis of the social constitution of disease and the philosophy of health seeks to map the social and medical negotiations taking place around the disease, shedding light on the ways these negotiations are also co-producing new selves. It will appeal to those wi...
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    302,16 €

  • Substance and Substitution
    Kylie Dr Valentine / Suzanne Fraser
    Located between three powerful phenomena, public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers. This book aims to examine the controversial approach to addiction, providing in the process a unique approach to literature on illicit drugs ...
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    65,31 €

  • Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture
    Suzanne Fraser
    Through its representation, cosmetic surgery impacts on us all, not just those who go 'under the knife.' Women’s magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compete to define which procedures can be offered and how. This book investigates the ways in which cosmetic surgery is shaping gen...
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    132,75 €