Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body

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The body, gender, and age: Feminist insights in social gerontology (2004, background): “Oberg and Thornstram (1999) found that, counter to the usual assumptions, women’s satisfaction with their bodies in fact increases with age, to the extent that the gap between men’s and women’s sense of bodily esteem that is marked in younger ages disappears in those over 75.”
Self-tracking cultures: towards a sociology of personal informatics (2014, methodology): “Self-tracking discourses and cultures can be moralistic and judgemental, building on wider and long-established ideas about personal responsibility for good health, physical fitness and productivity (Lupton, 1995a, 2012a, 2012b, 2013b).”
M-health and health promotion: The digital cyborg and surveillance society (2012, background): “Not all patients wish to become reflexive, agential and ‘empowered consumers’ of health care (Lupton, 1997; Andreassen, 2011; Lupton, 2012).”
‘It was a real good show’: the ultrasound scan, fathers and the power of visual knowledge (2002, methodology): “For example, the image of the fetus in late twentieth century culture has been commercialised for example in car advertisements (Taylor 1993) and also used to serve political purposes (Lupton 1994), as observed in the pro-life movement (Petchesky 1987, Casper 1998).”