Experiences of Health Risks

Prevention, Power Dynamics and Inequalities

Claudine Burton-Jeangros

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Palgrave Macmillan
27 February 2025

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social groups; Sociology; Public health & preventive medicine

Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty

This book focuses on health risks, a domain in which risk expansion has been particularly prolific. As a result of massive gains in scientific knowledge, made possible by statistical developments, data accumulation and computerisation over the last decades, more and more attention has been geared towards risks in the fields of public health and medicine.

Specifically directed towards concrete experiences of health risks, the book analyses the social contexts in which these experiences occur to understand how people, in their diverse positions, actually think, feel, act, and interact around experiences of risk. The author argues that recurrent debates about risk exist because most of the time the notion leaves aside the complexity of social processes surrounding actual experiences and interpretations of vulnerability and danger in society.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology of health and medicine and risk studies, as well as health professionals and policy-makers facing the complexity of acting and deciding in the risk society.

By: Claudine Burton-Jeangros
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2024 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783031653766
ISBN 10: 3031653769
Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 27 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claudine Burton-Jeangros is Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on social inequalities in health, health trajectories and interpretations of risks. Her most recent book is the co-edited volume Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics: Social Science Perspectives (2019), with Mathilde Bourrier and Nathalie Brender. Her work has been published in journals such as Frontiers in Public Health, BMC Public Health, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Social Science & Medicine.