Bücher von Deborah Lupton

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'.

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.

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.

`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 authors draw in poststructuralist theory to analyze the ways that fatherhood is represented in "expert" literature and in the mass media.

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 book brings together empirical research and social and cultural theory to examine the nature of the emotional self in western societies.