Preamble: ‘Look at me’ -- 1 Healthy Volunteering: The Concept of Volunteering in Phase I Clinical drug trials in the UK -- 2 Risk, Rewards and Rational Consent in Healthy Volunteering -- 3 Risk, Motivation and Decision Making in Everyday life: A Phenomenological Approach -- 4 Who takes part in clinical drug trials? -- 5 ‘Context is Everything’: - The Reality of Becoming a Human Guinea P…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights: A European Perspective -- Chapter 2. Sexual Citizenship: from Social Inclusion to Political Contestation -- Chapter 3. The "Pink Agenda": the Challenges of Promoting Queer-friendly Policies Abroad -- Chapter 4. The Gendered and Sexed Citizen: Different Bodies, Different Rights? -- Chapter 5. Multisexual and Multigender Citizenship: …
1. 'Every body has its own feminism': Introducing Transcending Borders -- 2. Abortion, Infanticide and a Return to the Gods: Politics of Pregnancy in Early Modern Japan -- 3. Unlocking the Mysterious Trunk: Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Abortion Narratives -- 4. 'Impossible to get to know these secret means' – Colonial anxiety and the quest for controlling reproduction in 'German East …
Lara Jüssen takes the case of Latin American household and construction workers in Madrid to show how ir/regular labour migrants make citizenship available for themselves through emplacements, embodiments and enactments of citizenship. After describing the sociopolitical context of crisis and resistance in Spain, citizenship is anthropologized in order to approach it through the workplace: the…
1. Introduction -- Part I. Making Scientific and Medical Truths -- 2. Alzheimer’s in the Making -- 3. The Pharmaceuticalized Prostate -- 4. New Puberty; New Trans: Children, Pharmaceuticals and Politics -- Part II. Creating Subjectivities for “Patients” in Advertising -- 5. Prescribing Relational Subjectivities -- 6. You Will Protect Your Daughter, Right? -- Part III. Different HPV Vaccin…
1. Introduction -- 2. Theory and Methods -- 3. Understanding Veganism -- 4. Queering Veganism -- 5. Demonstrating Veganism -- 6. Criminalising Veganism -- 7. Conclusion.This book focuses on the increasingly popular phenomenon of veganism, a way of living that attempts to exclude all animal products on ethical grounds. Using data from biographical interviews with vegans, the author untangles the…
1. Coffee and Death -- 2. Baby Boomers and the Death Café -- 3. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld -- 4. Death Café Communicative Action -- 5. Death Sentiments and Death Themes -- 6. Enhancing Habermas with Erich Fromm and Kurt Wolff -- 7. Enhancing Habermas with Ray Oldenburg -- 8. Decolonizing the Lifeworld.This sociological work examines the ph…
Chapter 1: Bioethics Beyond Altruism -- Part I Stem Cells -- Chapter 2: Dead human bodies and embryos: Commonalities and disparities in ethical debate -- Chapter 3: The immortal life of ethics? The alienation of body tissue, ethics and the informed consent procedure within induced pluripotent stem cell research -- Chapter 4: On the everyday ethics of stem cell therapies in India -- Part II Assi…
1. Introduction -- 2. Beyond Body-Centrism: Contemporary Food Discourses and Feminist Research -- 3. A Smorgasbord of Food Femininities: Analysing Gender in Popular Food Discourses -- 4. Femininities-Lite: Feminist Empowerment and Diet Culture -- 5. Cooking Up Femininities: The Conflict Between Motherhood and Pleasure -- 6. Flavours of Feminism: The Personal is Personal -- 7. Unveiling a Patho…
1.Introduction: where great need meets great uncertainty -- 2. Understanding innovation & the problem of technology adoption -- 3. A history of deep brain stimulation -- 4. Multidisciplinary teamwork -- 5. Body work & space -- 6. Managing expectations, aligning futures -- 7. Measuring clinical outcomes -- 8. Towards patient-centred platforms.This book draws on medical sociology and science and …