Robin Bunton
Biographic Data
| ID | 301464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Bunton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bunton |
| SIGNATURE | BUNTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teesside University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Views and experiences of opioid access amongst palliative care providers and public representatives in a low-resource setting
Opioids (e.g. morphine) are affordable, effective interventions for cancer-related pain. However, equity of access to this key medication remains a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to explore views of palliative care providers and public-representatives about opioid analgesia access in two States in India. We conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews. Transcribed audio-recordings we…
Moving on in uncertain times
Tribute to Gavin Mooney and Del Weston
Drugs’ pleasures
Discourses on drug use and public health show a relative neglect of the study of pleasure. We argue that work on the social, cultural and historical specificity of bodies and the emotions can be usefully drawn upon to study the pleasures of drug use. This article reflects upon the nature of pleasure and its under-representation in public health approaches to drug use and methodologies. It considers four varieties of drug pleasures: carnal pleasur…
Visions of the public and private in public health genomics
Bio-banks have been heralded as a new frontier of bio-molecular research potentially transforming public health by providing improved techniques for predicting illnesses, as well as potentially allowing more targeted health interventions. The teams of health professionals and others that build these technical and informational resources routinely consider ethical, legal and social issues and thereby co-produce the boundaries of a number of cultur…
Logics of practice in the ‘risk environment’
This paper explores the salience of the work of Pierre Bourdieu for theorising young men's experience of risk and drugs within a working class community in the North East of England identified by official discourses as a ‘risk environment.’ First, the concepts of field, habitus and practice are introduced. We then discuss the usefulness of these concepts for understanding diversity and contradiction in drug use, risk calculation and everyday life…
Public health and public involvement
Involving the public and stakeholders in public health initiatives is so much a routine part of public health that we hardly ever reflect upon it, either as a principle or a process. Versions of ‘t
There is a Mantra of
Representing public health
Critical Health Psychology
Behaviour oriented health promotion has often relied on over-simplistic and over-deterministic models in which action emanates from individuals, not the social or economic structures they inhabit. Mainstream health psychology models are allied with official health ideology and policy, stressing self-control, self-regulation and responsible (low-cost) health citizenship. Discussion of psycho-political validity and of the use of a wider community o…
War and public health
Public health specialists and activists frequently struggle to maintain a broad perspective in achieving their mission, to think globally even if they act locally, as the saying goes. Yet, the fiel
Years of Critical Public Health
Governing the Unhealthy Community
The Sociology of Health Promotion
The sociology of health promotion , The sociology of health promotion , کتابخانه دیجیتال جندی شاپور اهواز
Health Action Zones and the problem of community
Health Actions Zones (HAZs) have been identified as initiatives reflecting the 'third way' policies espoused by the UK New Labour Government. Like other area-based or zone initiatives, HAZ programmes are designed to tackle inequalities and exclusion in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. This is to be achieved through partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors, and most significantly, communities themselves. Health Acti…
The New Genetics and the Public's Health
In Pursuit of the Study of Pleasure
Many public health interventions attempt to promote health and well-being while simultaneously engaging with or negating pleasure-seeking activities. Yet the examination of pleasure is under-researched, especially within health and health-related areas. We examine pleasure as both an innate drive and a socially constructed phenomenon. Using the development of religious ideas in western cultures, we identify four forms of pleasure: carnal pleasure…
Foucault, Health and Medicine
The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas. Foucault…
Genetics, ethics and governance
Genetics, governance and ethics
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Knowledge, Embodiment and Neo-Liberal Drug Policy
Contemporary social policy on drugs is centrally concerned with ensuring the orderly reproduction of the social life in the face of rapid social transformation. This paper examines some recent changes in the relationships of weljare and makes observations about the principles underlying contemporary European drug policy, with a particular concern for the governability of drug users. Expert knowledge is argued to play an important role in reconstr…
The ‘stages of change’ model in health promotion
The transtheoretical or 'stages of change' model has greatly influenced health promotion practice in the USA, Australia and the UK since the late 1980s. Application of the model has shaped service planning, provision and implementation. 'Stages of change' also has impacted on training agendas at local, regional and national levels. Associated areas of motivational interviewing and brief intervention have led health promotion initiatives in areas …
Contextualizing Risk and Danger
Current debates about the nature of risk in late modernity suggest that changing social structures and a weakening, or increasingly global mediation of social constraints associated with the old order, have given rise to a new set of risks and opportunities. Social inequalities continue to impact upon people's lives but from within the contingencies of individualizing processes of 'risk society'. Whilst it is acknowledged that there are differenc…
In Pursuit of the Study of Pleasure
Many public health interventions attempt to promote health and well-being while simultaneously engaging with or negating pleasure-seeking activities. Yet the examination of pleasure is under-researched, especially within health and health-related areas. We examine pleasure as both an innate drive and a socially constructed phenomenon. Using the development of religious ideas in western cultures, we identify four forms of pleasure: carnal pleasure…
Contextualizing Risk and Danger
Current debates about the nature of risk in late modernity suggest that changing social structures and a weakening, or increasingly global mediation of social constraints associated with the old order, have given rise to a new set of risks and opportunities. Social inequalities continue to impact upon people's lives but from within the contingencies of individualizing processes of 'risk society'. Whilst it is acknowledged that there are differenc…
Knowledge, Embodiment and Neo-Liberal Drug Policy
Contemporary social policy on drugs is centrally concerned with ensuring the orderly reproduction of the social life in the face of rapid social transformation. This paper examines some recent changes in the relationships of weljare and makes observations about the principles underlying contemporary European drug policy, with a particular concern for the governability of drug users. Expert knowledge is argued to play an important role in reconstr…
Health Action Zones and the problem of community
Health Actions Zones (HAZs) have been identified as initiatives reflecting the 'third way' policies espoused by the UK New Labour Government. Like other area-based or zone initiatives, HAZ programmes are designed to tackle inequalities and exclusion in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. This is to be achieved through partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors, and most significantly, communities themselves. Health Acti…
There is a Mantra of
Critical Health Psychology
Behaviour oriented health promotion has often relied on over-simplistic and over-deterministic models in which action emanates from individuals, not the social or economic structures they inhabit. Mainstream health psychology models are allied with official health ideology and policy, stressing self-control, self-regulation and responsible (low-cost) health citizenship. Discussion of psycho-political validity and of the use of a wider community o…
Governing the Unhealthy Community
Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein
Professional Power and Social Welfare (Book)
Preventing alcohol problems using healthy public policy
This paper, using the Canberra Consensus Statement (WHO, 1988) as a basis, focuses on the role of public policy in minimizing hann from alcohol misuse. The statement identifies three components through which such goals may be achieved demand reduction, supply reduction, and others. The paper firstly examines the usefulness of the document in guiding public policy initiatives. Secondly, we examine some theoretical and practical problems that may a…
More than a woolly jumper
Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein
The Imperative of Health
The limits to epidemiology re-visited
Commentary on the UK Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health
The ‘stages of change’ model in health promotion
The transtheoretical or 'stages of change' model has greatly influenced health promotion practice in the USA, Australia and the UK since the late 1980s. Application of the model has shaped service planning, provision and implementation. 'Stages of change' also has impacted on training agendas at local, regional and national levels. Associated areas of motivational interviewing and brief intervention have led health promotion initiatives in areas …
Contextualizing Risk and Danger
Current debates about the nature of risk in late modernity suggest that changing social structures and a weakening, or increasingly global mediation of social constraints associated with the old order, have given rise to a new set of risks and opportunities. Social inequalities continue to impact upon people's lives but from within the contingencies of individualizing processes of 'risk society'. Whilst it is acknowledged that there are differenc…
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Knowledge, Embodiment and Neo-Liberal Drug Policy
Contemporary social policy on drugs is centrally concerned with ensuring the orderly reproduction of the social life in the face of rapid social transformation. This paper examines some recent changes in the relationships of weljare and makes observations about the principles underlying contemporary European drug policy, with a particular concern for the governability of drug users. Expert knowledge is argued to play an important role in reconstr…
Foucault, Health and Medicine
The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution of Foucault's work to research and thinking in the area of health and medicine, and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his ideas. Foucault…
Genetics, ethics and governance
Genetics, governance and ethics
The Sociology of Health Promotion
The sociology of health promotion , The sociology of health promotion , کتابخانه دیجیتال جندی شاپور اهواز
Health Action Zones and the problem of community
Health Actions Zones (HAZs) have been identified as initiatives reflecting the 'third way' policies espoused by the UK New Labour Government. Like other area-based or zone initiatives, HAZ programmes are designed to tackle inequalities and exclusion in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. This is to be achieved through partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors, and most significantly, communities themselves. Health Acti…
The New Genetics and the Public's Health
In Pursuit of the Study of Pleasure
Many public health interventions attempt to promote health and well-being while simultaneously engaging with or negating pleasure-seeking activities. Yet the examination of pleasure is under-researched, especially within health and health-related areas. We examine pleasure as both an innate drive and a socially constructed phenomenon. Using the development of religious ideas in western cultures, we identify four forms of pleasure: carnal pleasure…
Years of Critical Public Health
Governing the Unhealthy Community
War and public health
Public health specialists and activists frequently struggle to maintain a broad perspective in achieving their mission, to think globally even if they act locally, as the saying goes. Yet, the fiel
Representing public health
Critical Health Psychology
Behaviour oriented health promotion has often relied on over-simplistic and over-deterministic models in which action emanates from individuals, not the social or economic structures they inhabit. Mainstream health psychology models are allied with official health ideology and policy, stressing self-control, self-regulation and responsible (low-cost) health citizenship. Discussion of psycho-political validity and of the use of a wider community o…
There is a Mantra of
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