In Western democracies, citizens are advised by governments to manage their bodily
practices in highly specific ways. There are guidelines for healthy eating, alcohol …

Time is a powerful but under‐examined element in healthy lifestyle advice, particularly in the
promise of stable states of future health achievable through sustained lifestyle change. But …

Since its' discovery'some 150 years ago, thinking about endometriosis has changed. With
current estimates identifying it as more common than breast and ovarian cancer, this …

In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of the policy
responses to COVID‐19 on disabled people. These responses have overwhelmingly …

The menopausal transition is a marker of aging for women and a time when health
professionals urge women to prevent disease. In this research we adopted a constructivist …

We examine gender and meanings of risk in interviews (2007–2010) with gang-involved
young men and women (n= 253) engaged in illicit drug sales in San Francisco, California …

Zeitdiagnosen einer verängstigten Gesellschaft sind populär. Doch welche Bedeutung
kommt Angst im Alltag der Menschen wirklich zu-und welche Ängste spielen konkret eine …

While there has been a significant amount of scholarship done on health and risk in relation
to public health and disease prevention, relatively little attention has been paid to …

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in hospitalizations between
different industries in the Finnish working-age population between 1976 and 2010. Methods …

This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the
second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the world's first neurological hospital, the …