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'The best thing for the baby': mothers' concepts and experiences related to promoting their infants' health and development
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2011-10-01Mothers and pregnant women in contemporary western societies are at the centre of a web of expert and lay discourses concerning the ways they should promote and protect the health and development of their foetuses and ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond the 'affect heuristic': the emotion-risk assemblage
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2012-11-27Little sociological research, with the notable exception of that on edgework, has focused directly on the emotional dimensions of risk rationalities. This space has largely been occupied by cognitive psychological approaches, ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Commodification of Patient Opinion: the Digital Patient Experience Economy in the Age of Big Data
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2013-05-04As part of the digital health phenomenon, a plethora of interactive digital platforms have been established in recent years to elicit lay people’s experiences of illness and healthcare. The function of these platforms, as ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Configuring maternal, preborn and infant embodiment
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2012-05-18A growing literature on the biopolitics of contemporary maternity and on risk society, individualisation and parenting has demonstrated the increasing emphasis that has been placed upon pregnant women and mothers to take ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Coping with COVID-19: The sociomaterial dimensions of living with pre-existing mental illness during the early stages of the coronavirus crisis
Lupton, Deborah; Lewis, SophiePublished 2021In this article, we use the case study method to detail the experiences of five participants who reported living with pre-existing mental illness during COVID-19. We adopted a sociomaterial analytical approach, seeking to ...Article -
Digital Sociology: An Introduction
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2012-08-03This document provides an introduction to digital sociology. It includes discussion on using digital and social media for sociological research and for academic professional practice.Open AccessOther -
Digital sociology: beyond the digital to the sociological
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2013-11-25The sub-discipline of digital sociology has recently begun to attract attention among sociologists, particularly in the UK. In this paper I undertake a review of some of the most interesting features of the body of digital ...Open AccessConference paper -
Digitized health promotion: personal responsibility for health in the Web 2.0 era
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2013-06-13The new apparatus of what is often termed ‘digital health’ (and also ‘Health 2.0’, ‘Medicine 2.0’, eHealth’ or ‘mHealth’), a conglomeration of new digital technologies addressed at delivering healthcare, preventive medicine ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Fat Politics: Collected Writings
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2013-04-08This publication is a collection of short articles published by sociologist Deborah Lupton on her blog and The Conversation website dealing with topics relating to the politics of body weight. The articles include discussion ...Open AccessOther -
'I'm Always on the Lookout for What Could be Going Wrong': Mothers' Concepts and Experiences of Health and Illness in Their Young Children
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2012-05-15Mothers in contemporary western societies are expected to adhere to the principles of intensive parenting, spending a great deal of time and effort caring for their children, protecting them from risks and promoting their ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Infant embodiment and interembodiment
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2013-05-06This article brings together a range of research and scholarship from various disciplines which have investigated and theorised social and cultural aspects of infants’ bodies within the context of contemporary western ...Open AccessArticle -
'It's a terrible thing when your children are sick': motherhood and home healthcare work
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2013-09-01This article draws upon research involving indepth interviews with 60 mothers of young children about the home healthcare in which they engage when promoting their children’s health and dealing with their illnesses, allergies ...Open AccessArticle -
M-health and health promotion: the digital cyborg and surveillance society
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2012-04-05The new mobile wireless computer technologies and social media applications using Web 2.0 platforms have recently received attention from those working in health promotion as a promising new way of achieving their goals ...Open AccessArticle -
Precious, pure, uncivilised, vulnerable: infant embodiment in the popular media
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2012-04-05Despite recent interest in researching and theorising the sociocultural dimensions of human embodiment, the cultural representation of young children’s bodies, and particularly infants’ bodies, has received little academic ...Open AccessArticle -
Revolting Bodies: the Pedagogy of Disgust in Public Health Campaigns
Lupton, DeborahPublished 2013-05-26The developers of public health campaigns have often attempted to elicit the emotion of disgust to persuade members of their target audiences to change their behaviour in the interests of their health. This article identifies ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Very good punter-speak. How journalists frame the news on public health
Chapman, Simon; McCarthy, Sophie; Lupton, DeborahPublished 1995-01-01This is a monograph commissioned by NSW Health in 1995 to inform the "Smog Summit". It reports on interviews with 9 Sydney journalists. Each interview focused on five often inter-related issues: 1. News gathering routines ...Open AccessWorking Paper
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