With 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 promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.
Our concepts of our emotions are integral to our wider conception of ourselves, and are used to give meaning and provide explanation for our lives. This... Læs mere
The Third Edition of a seminal text which is widely recommended to upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of health, anthropology, nursing and cultural studies.
`A good history of public health developments, primarily in Australia and England, the book is a continuation of debate among health education profession over the status of any or all health education "truths"' - Choice
This work provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the social, cultural and symbolic meanings of fatherhood in contemporary Western societies. The... Læs mere
"As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. Lupton develops a fresh... Læs mere
This text provides critical insight into the social and cultural context in which attitudes towards people with HIV and AIDS are developed, and the responses of governments to the AIDS epidemic are formulated.
'Drawing on the extensive writings that have grown up around, food, body image, nutrition theory and gender, she draws an altogether more voluptuous picture of the state of our relationship to our bodies' - Susie Orbach, Times Literary Supplement
Living Futures offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how people imagine and make futures as part of their everyday lives. It addresses important questions about who is included in futures thinking and futures making, and who is excluded.