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Fat Deborah Lupton 9781138493070
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western... -
Risk Deborah Lupton 9781032327006
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.07We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and... -
Risk by Deborah Lupton 9781032327013
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €108.94We are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and... -
The Quantified Self Deborah Lupton 9781509500604
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.50With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to... -
Digital Food Cultures by Deborah Lupton
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €38.13This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures.Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine... -
The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton 9781509500598
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to... -
Digital Food Cultures by Deborah Lupton 9781138392540
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €136.48This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures.Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine... -
Food, the Body and the Self by Deborah Lupton 9780803976481
Booksplease Price: €127.88In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating, Deborah Lupton explores the relationship between food and embodiment, the emotions... -
The Social Worlds of the Unborn by Deborah Lupton 9781137310712
Booksplease Price: €55.62Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part of the IVF industry and... -
Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body by Deborah Lupton
Booksplease Price: €92.58Lupton's newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever. Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of Sydney A welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the... -
The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives by Deborah Lupton
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Since its emergence in early 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected every part of the world. Well beyond its health effects, the pandemic has wrought major changes in people's everyday lives as they... -
Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences by Deborah Lupton 9780761953418
Booksplease Price: €146.48`It is a very impressive book. Its coverage of contemporary discourses of fatherhood is comprehensive. The theoretical stance is one that allows for complexity and fluidity. The authors write well,... -
Digital Sociology Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra, Australia) 9781138022775
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €69.48We 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... -
The Face Mask In COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis by Deborah Lupton
Booksplease Price: €25.79The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the... -
Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives Deborah Lupton 9789819691678
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €130.59This edited book focuses on the social aspects and impacts of Long COVID from an international perspective, including contributions from researchers in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands... -
The Internet of Animals: Human–Animal Relationships in the Digital Age by Deborah Lupton
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including companion animals, wildlife, feral animals and livestock. In... -
Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives Deborah Lupton 9781509536429
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed... -
The Face Mask In COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis by Deborah Lupton 9783111116655
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €12.50The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the... -
Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives by Deborah Lupton 9780521642071
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €106.73This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it... -
Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives Deborah Lupton 9781509536412
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed... -
Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives by Deborah Lupton 9780521645546
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €47.71This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it... -
Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in the News Media Deborah Lupton 9780748401802
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.92Since 1981, AIDS has had an enormous impact upon the popular imagination. Few other diseases this century have been greeted with quite the same fear, loathing, and prejudice against those who develop... -
COVID Societies: Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis Deborah Lupton (UNSW, Sydney) 9781032060569
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65COVID Societies presents a compelling and accessible overview of key sociocultural theories that can help us make sense of the diverse, dynamic and complex elements of the COVID crisis. These include... -
Digitised Health, Medicine and Risk Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra, Australia) 9780367028947
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.78A 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... -
The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education by Deborah Lupton
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks... -
Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning Deborah Lupton 9780367648343
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €42.60This book shows how creative methods, drawing on innovative arts-based and design-based approaches, can be employed in health education contexts. It takes a very broad view of 'health education',... -
The Internet of Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age Deborah Lupton (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) 9781509552757
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit our digital spaces, from the monitoring of wildlife and feral animals to wearable devices... -
Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra, Australia. SHARP Professor, Leader, the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre.) 9781138123458
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the... -
Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine: Sociological Perspectives Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra, Australia. SHARP Professor, Leader, the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre.) 9780367321864
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient... -
Digital Food Activism by Tanja Schneider
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €50.77Digital Food Activism is a new edited volume that investigates how digital media technologies are transforming food activism and consumers' engagements with food, eating, and food systems. Bringing... -
The New Public Health: Discourses, Knowledges, Strategies by Alan Petersen
Booksplease Price: €141.73Petersen 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... -
Communicating Health and Illness by Richard Gwyn
Booksplease Price: €139.25`There has been a pressing need for a book like this for some time. Gwyn cogently reviews the literature on discourse analysis as it pertains to medical and health matters. Introducing original... -
Discourse, the Body, and Identity by J. Coupland 9780333969007
Booksplease Price: €107.77The 'body' and 'discourse' seem diametrically opposed, but we interact with our bodies and represent ourselves and our relationships in bodily terms. This volume integrates new studies by leading... -
Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies by Michael Silk 9780367871246
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.84Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research... -
Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men's Participation in Low-Income Family Life Anna Tarrant (University of Lincoln) 9781447348665
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.72Anna Tarrant's revealing research explores the dynamics of men's caring responsibilities in low-income families' lives. The book draws on pioneering multigenerational research to examine men's... -
Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty: An Introduction by Jens O. Zinn 9781405153355
RRP: €114.18Booksplease Price: €100.71Written by leading experts in the field, Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an introduction to mainstream theorizing on risk and uncertainty in sociology. Provides an overview of the... -
Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty: An Introduction Jens O. Zinn (University of Kent at Canterbury) 9781405153362
RRP: €38.02Booksplease Price: €35.14Written by leading experts in the field, Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an introduction to mainstream theorizing on risk and uncertainty in sociology. Provides an overview of the... -
Living Data: Making Sense of Health Biosensing by Celia Roberts 9781529207507
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €45.57As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a critique of the popular claim that 'more information' equates to 'better... -
Key Concepts in Body and Society by Kate Cregan 9781847875440
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €43.29"This is a very useful book outlining the key concepts of the body in society. It is easy to read and provides useful examples, making it ideal for students across a range of social science... -
Risk and Everyday Life by John Tulloch
Booksplease Price: €130.54Risk and Everyday Life examines how people respond to, experience and think about risk as part of their everyday lives. Bringing together original empirical research and sociocultural theory, the...