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Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and
moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred
years, over the past few decades they have come under intense
attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of
lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating medical, social
and economic consequences. Indeed, we appear to be in the midst of
an important historical moment in which policies and practices that
would have been unthinkable a decade ago (e.g., outdoor smoking
bans, incarcerating pregnant women for drinking alcohol, and
prohibiting restaurants from serving food to fat people), have
become acceptable responses to the 'risks' that alcohol, tobacco
and obesity are perceived to pose. Hailing from Canada, Australia,
the United Kingdom and the USA, and drawing on examples from all
four countries, contributors interrogate the ways in which alcohol,
tobacco and fat have come to be constructed as 'problems' requiring
intervention and expose the social, cultural and political roots of
the current public health obsession with lifestyle. No prior
collection has set out to provide an in-depth examination of
alcohol, tobacco and obesity through the comparative approach taken
in this volume. This book therefore represents an invaluable and
timely contribution to critical studies of public health, health
inequities, health policy, and the sociology of risk more broadly.
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and
moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred
years, over the past few decades they have come under intense
attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of
lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating medical, social
and economic consequences. Indeed, we appear to be in the midst of
an important historical moment in which policies and practices that
would have been unthinkable a decade ago (e.g., outdoor smoking
bans, incarcerating pregnant women for drinking alcohol, and
prohibiting restaurants from serving food to fat people), have
become acceptable responses to the 'risks' that alcohol, tobacco
and obesity are perceived to pose. Hailing from Canada, Australia,
the United Kingdom and the USA, and drawing on examples from all
four countries, contributors interrogate the ways in which alcohol,
tobacco and fat have come to be constructed as 'problems' requiring
intervention and expose the social, cultural and political roots of
the current public health obsession with lifestyle. No prior
collection has set out to provide an in-depth examination of
alcohol, tobacco and obesity through the comparative approach taken
in this volume. This book therefore represents an invaluable and
timely contribution to critical studies of public health, health
inequities, health policy, and the sociology of risk more broadly.
Developments in health, science and technology have long provided
fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines. This book
focuses on the critical and enduring importance of core concepts in
anthropology and sociology for interrogating and keeping pace with
developments in the life sciences. The authors consider how
transformations in medical and scientific knowledge serve to
reanimate older controversies, giving new life to debates about
relations between society, culture, knowledge and individuals. They
reflect on the particular legacies and ongoing relevance of
concepts such as 'culture', 'society', 'magic', 'production',
'kinship', 'exchange' and 'the body'. The chapters draw on the work
of key historical and contemporary figures across the social
sciences and include a range of illustrative case studies to
explore topics such as transplant medicine, genetic counselling,
cancer therapy, reproductive health and addiction. Of particular
interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, and
science and technology studies, this volume will also be a valuable
resource for those working in the fields of health and medicine.
Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as
a core cultural value. Taking 'health', 'evidence' and 'ethics' as
her primary themes, Bell explores the edifice that underpins
contemporary conceptions of health and the transformations in how
we understand it, assess it and enact it. Although health, evidence
and ethics have always been important values, she demonstrates that
the grounds upon which they are grasped today are radically
different from how they were formulated in the past. Divided into
three parts, Part I focuses on the rise of epidemiology, Part II
examines the emergence of evidence-based medicine, and Part III
explores the broader ethical turn in health and medicine. Through
an examination of core concepts including health behaviour, the
randomised controlled trial, informed consent and human rights,
Bell illustrates the ways in which certain entrenched ideas and
assumptions about how human beings think and act recur across a
variety of settings. An array of topical case studies, including
cigarette packaging legislation, the incorporation of male
circumcision as an HIV prevention tool, cancer screening
technologies and e-cigarettes, ground the arguments presented.
Written in a clear and engaging style, this volume will be of
interest to a wide range of scholars and students, especially those
in medical anthropology, medical sociology and public health. Clear
chapter delineations make the work easy to engage with at the
individual chapter level as well as a whole.
Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as
a core cultural value. Taking 'health', 'evidence' and 'ethics' as
her primary themes, Bell explores the edifice that underpins
contemporary conceptions of health and the transformations in how
we understand it, assess it and enact it. Although health, evidence
and ethics have always been important values, she demonstrates that
the grounds upon which they are grasped today are radically
different from how they were formulated in the past. Divided into
three parts, Part I focuses on the rise of epidemiology, Part II
examines the emergence of evidence-based medicine, and Part III
explores the broader ethical turn in health and medicine. Through
an examination of core concepts including health behaviour, the
randomised controlled trial, informed consent and human rights,
Bell illustrates the ways in which certain entrenched ideas and
assumptions about how human beings think and act recur across a
variety of settings. An array of topical case studies, including
cigarette packaging legislation, the incorporation of male
circumcision as an HIV prevention tool, cancer screening
technologies and e-cigarettes, ground the arguments presented.
Written in a clear and engaging style, this volume will be of
interest to a wide range of scholars and students, especially those
in medical anthropology, medical sociology and public health. Clear
chapter delineations make the work easy to engage with at the
individual chapter level as well as a whole.
Developments in health, science and technology have long provided
fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines. This book
focuses on the critical and enduring importance of core concepts in
anthropology and sociology for interrogating and keeping pace with
developments in the life sciences. The authors consider how
transformations in medical and scientific knowledge serve to
reanimate older controversies, giving new life to debates about
relations between society, culture, knowledge and individuals. They
reflect on the particular legacies and ongoing relevance of
concepts such as 'culture', 'society', 'magic', 'production',
'kinship', 'exchange' and 'the body'. The chapters draw on the work
of key historical and contemporary figures across the social
sciences and include a range of illustrative case studies to
explore topics such as transplant medicine, genetic counselling,
cancer therapy, reproductive health and addiction. Of particular
interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, and
science and technology studies, this volume will also be a valuable
resource for those working in the fields of health and medicine.
An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to
life's little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust?
Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really
humankind's best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers?
Can you still spot the difference between a Brit and an American by
their teeth? In 'Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cultural
Patterns of Everyday Behaviour', Kirsten Bell, an anthropologist
who has lived in five countries on four continents-and learned
about cultural gaffes by constantly committing them-places our
everyday behaviours under the microscope. Boldly going where no
anthropologist has gone before, no topic is too small or
insignificant for Bell's attention, whether it's the propensity of
Brits to place their washing machine in the kitchen, the
disinclination of Americans to buy rounds at the pub, Australians'
well-documented obsession with toilet paper, or Canadian
sensibilities around swearing. The kind of book Jared Diamond might
write if he was more concerned with the meanings of bodily
emissions than the collapse of civilizations, 'Silent but Deadly'
deciphers the cultural patterns that underlie our everyday quirks,
foibles, and habits.
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