Names: Juhila, Kirsi, editor.| Raitakari, Suvi, editor.| Hall, Christopher, 1948-editor. Title:
Responsibilization at the margins of welfare services/edited by Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari …

Winner of the Donald W. Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology
Medical marijuana laws have spread across the US to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty …

Introduction Responsibility is one of the concepts that has been intensively used and
analysed in social sciences during the last three decades. In this chapter, our interest is …

Research on why people use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) shows clients
value the CAM consultation, where they feel listened to and empowered to control their own …

Western understandings of breast cancer are primarily shaped both by neo-liberal,
individual-oriented approaches to health and illness and by 'consumer-led'health …

The Internet offers rich opportunities for examining the construction of health and illness
through multiple visual and textual modes. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) is …

In diverse social contexts individuals are encouraged to 'work on'their bodies to improve
their health and appearance. This article builds on recent sociological and feminist …

Interest in the connection between involvement in digital communities and well-being has
increased as these communities become more commonplace. Specific models of interaction …

Health care providers' recommendations can play an important role in individuals'
vaccination decisions. Despite being one of the most popular complementary and …

Whether within an atmosphere of hope, or amidst relations of fear, the emotions of cancer
are unavoidably collectively produced. Yet persistent individualistic paradigms continue to …