Nick Fox
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3761267 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nick Fox |
| PRENOMES | Nick |
| SOBRENOME | Fox |
| ASSINATURA | FOX N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 244 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Jane’s paper (‘Acting amidst: some concepts and practices’ in this special issue) was followed by the following discussion
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
Creativity, anti-humanism and the 'new sociology of art
This article reviews sociology's uneasy engagement with creativity, using the lens of recent critiques of Bourdieusian art sociology and the call for a more nuanced understanding of the agency of art objects and trajectories of artistic production. I develop and apply an anti-humanist ontology to assert that creativity is profoundly sociologically interesting, and key to the production of human culture, from science and technology to the arts to …
Health, ethics and environment
You are what you eat? Vegetarianism, health and identity
Health identities
This article explores the formation of 'health identities': embodied subjectivities that emerge out of complex psychosocial contexts of reflexive modernity, in relation to data on health and illness practices among groups of people and patients using medical technologies including weight-loss drugs and the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil ( Viagra). We examine a range of health identities, from the 'expert patient' - a person who broadly adop…
A Sociology of Technology Governance for the Information Age
In a civil society, the governance of technology is a matter of law and regulation, but also of responsibility and accountability, within which issues of public safety and security must be balanced against individual and collective rights. Within sociology, studies have not fully examined the complexity of how governance is achieved, and how environmental changes may threaten governance systems. This article explores the negotiated character of t…
Pro‐anorexia, weight‐loss drugs and the internet
This paper explores the online ‘pro‐anorexia’ underground, a movement that supports those with anorexia and adopts an ‘anti‐recovery’ perspective on the disease. While encouraging a ‘healthy’ diet to sustain an anorexic way‐of‐life, the movement also recommends the radical use of weight‐loss pharmaceuticals to pursue and maintain low body weight, in contrast to their conventional use to treat obesity. Using ethnographic and interview data collect…
The birth of the e-clinic. Continuity or transformation in the UK governance of pharmaceutical consumption
Use of the Internet by medical voluntary groups in the UK
Gps in Cyberspace
It has been argued that on-line networked communication can enable the establishment of 'virtual communities'. Empirical data from an electronic discussion group for general medical practitioners (GPs) are used to evaluate these claims, and to explore the similarities and discrepancies between on-line and face-to-face interactions. A distinct social order for this 'community' is reported, and the strategies to establish this order in a textual en…
Risks', 'Hazards' and Life Choices
The workplace has been extensively and variously evaluated as an environment which - like others - contains risks to health. This paper unpacks such risk assessment by problematising the relation between hazards and risks. Three positions are set out. In the first (materialist or realist), risks map directly onto underlying real hazards. In the second (constructionist or culturalist), hazards are natural, while risks are social constructions. In …
Postmodern perspectives on care
This paper explores the perspectives which postmodernism and post- structuralism bring to an understanding of care, particularly in the writings of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous and Stephen White. It is suggested that care is paradoxical. On one hand it is a tech nology of surveillance which, as a consequence of the professionalisa tion of caring, constitutes the vigil. But although this technology is one of control and supplies…
Health, ethics and environment
Pro‐anorexia, weight‐loss drugs and the internet
This paper explores the online ‘pro‐anorexia’ underground, a movement that supports those with anorexia and adopts an ‘anti‐recovery’ perspective on the disease. While encouraging a ‘healthy’ diet to sustain an anorexic way‐of‐life, the movement also recommends the radical use of weight‐loss pharmaceuticals to pursue and maintain low body weight, in contrast to their conventional use to treat obesity. Using ethnographic and interview data collect…
You are what you eat? Vegetarianism, health and identity
Health identities
This article explores the formation of 'health identities': embodied subjectivities that emerge out of complex psychosocial contexts of reflexive modernity, in relation to data on health and illness practices among groups of people and patients using medical technologies including weight-loss drugs and the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil ( Viagra). We examine a range of health identities, from the 'expert patient' - a person who broadly adop…
Postmodern perspectives on care
This paper explores the perspectives which postmodernism and post- structuralism bring to an understanding of care, particularly in the writings of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous and Stephen White. It is suggested that care is paradoxical. On one hand it is a tech nology of surveillance which, as a consequence of the professionalisa tion of caring, constitutes the vigil. But although this technology is one of control and supplies…
Gps in Cyberspace
It has been argued that on-line networked communication can enable the establishment of 'virtual communities'. Empirical data from an electronic discussion group for general medical practitioners (GPs) are used to evaluate these claims, and to explore the similarities and discrepancies between on-line and face-to-face interactions. A distinct social order for this 'community' is reported, and the strategies to establish this order in a textual en…
A Sociology of Technology Governance for the Information Age
In a civil society, the governance of technology is a matter of law and regulation, but also of responsibility and accountability, within which issues of public safety and security must be balanced against individual and collective rights. Within sociology, studies have not fully examined the complexity of how governance is achieved, and how environmental changes may threaten governance systems. This article explores the negotiated character of t…
The birth of the e-clinic. Continuity or transformation in the UK governance of pharmaceutical consumption
Creativity, anti-humanism and the 'new sociology of art
This article reviews sociology's uneasy engagement with creativity, using the lens of recent critiques of Bourdieusian art sociology and the call for a more nuanced understanding of the agency of art objects and trajectories of artistic production. I develop and apply an anti-humanist ontology to assert that creativity is profoundly sociologically interesting, and key to the production of human culture, from science and technology to the arts to …
Risks', 'Hazards' and Life Choices
The workplace has been extensively and variously evaluated as an environment which - like others - contains risks to health. This paper unpacks such risk assessment by problematising the relation between hazards and risks. Three positions are set out. In the first (materialist or realist), risks map directly onto underlying real hazards. In the second (constructionist or culturalist), hazards are natural, while risks are social constructions. In …
Use of the Internet by medical voluntary groups in the UK
Postmodern perspectives on care
This paper explores the perspectives which postmodernism and post- structuralism bring to an understanding of care, particularly in the writings of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous and Stephen White. It is suggested that care is paradoxical. On one hand it is a tech nology of surveillance which, as a consequence of the professionalisa tion of caring, constitutes the vigil. But although this technology is one of control and supplies…
Risks', 'Hazards' and Life Choices
The workplace has been extensively and variously evaluated as an environment which - like others - contains risks to health. This paper unpacks such risk assessment by problematising the relation between hazards and risks. Three positions are set out. In the first (materialist or realist), risks map directly onto underlying real hazards. In the second (constructionist or culturalist), hazards are natural, while risks are social constructions. In …
Gps in Cyberspace
It has been argued that on-line networked communication can enable the establishment of 'virtual communities'. Empirical data from an electronic discussion group for general medical practitioners (GPs) are used to evaluate these claims, and to explore the similarities and discrepancies between on-line and face-to-face interactions. A distinct social order for this 'community' is reported, and the strategies to establish this order in a textual en…
Use of the Internet by medical voluntary groups in the UK
Pro‐anorexia, weight‐loss drugs and the internet
This paper explores the online ‘pro‐anorexia’ underground, a movement that supports those with anorexia and adopts an ‘anti‐recovery’ perspective on the disease. While encouraging a ‘healthy’ diet to sustain an anorexic way‐of‐life, the movement also recommends the radical use of weight‐loss pharmaceuticals to pursue and maintain low body weight, in contrast to their conventional use to treat obesity. Using ethnographic and interview data collect…
The birth of the e-clinic. Continuity or transformation in the UK governance of pharmaceutical consumption
Health identities
This article explores the formation of 'health identities': embodied subjectivities that emerge out of complex psychosocial contexts of reflexive modernity, in relation to data on health and illness practices among groups of people and patients using medical technologies including weight-loss drugs and the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil ( Viagra). We examine a range of health identities, from the 'expert patient' - a person who broadly adop…
A Sociology of Technology Governance for the Information Age
In a civil society, the governance of technology is a matter of law and regulation, but also of responsibility and accountability, within which issues of public safety and security must be balanced against individual and collective rights. Within sociology, studies have not fully examined the complexity of how governance is achieved, and how environmental changes may threaten governance systems. This article explores the negotiated character of t…
Health, ethics and environment
You are what you eat? Vegetarianism, health and identity
Creativity, anti-humanism and the 'new sociology of art
This article reviews sociology's uneasy engagement with creativity, using the lens of recent critiques of Bourdieusian art sociology and the call for a more nuanced understanding of the agency of art objects and trajectories of artistic production. I develop and apply an anti-humanist ontology to assert that creativity is profoundly sociologically interesting, and key to the production of human culture, from science and technology to the arts to …
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Jane’s paper (‘Acting amidst: some concepts and practices’ in this special issue) was followed by the following discussion
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