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Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
AIDS in the News Media
Series: Social Aspects of AIDS
Since 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 it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in "making sense"...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Taylor & Francis
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Risk
Second Edition
Series: Key Ideas
Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the...
Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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Fat
Series: Shortcuts
In 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 countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and...
Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
AIDS in the News Media
Series: Social Aspects of AIDS
Since 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 it. The mass media, and in particular, the news media, have played a vital part in "making sense"...
Published March 22nd 1994 by Taylor & Francis
