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  1. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.Professor Mary Douglas - 2002 - Routledge.
    In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most important role is to offer each reader a new explanation of why people (...)
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  • Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory.Chris Weedon - 1996 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theoryd offers a clear and accessible introduction to poststructuralist theory, focusing on questions of language, subjectivity and power.
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  • Frequent observation: sexualities, self‐surveillance, confession and the construction of the active patient.Anthony Pryce - 2000 - Nursing Inquiry 7 (2):103-111.
    Frequent observation: sexualities, self‐surveillance, confession and the construction of the active patient Following Foucault’s analyses of the development of the disciplinary power of the medical gaze, this paper describes the themes that are relocating the ‘active patient’ as the central object of health scrutiny by professionals. A key element in these discourses has been the deployment of power through disciplinary knowledge and techniques of social control through ritual forms of confession, thereby positing the patient/client as the subject of self‐surveillance. The (...)
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  • Diagnostic classification, viral sexually transmitted infections and discourses of femininity: limits of normalisation to erase stigma.Catherine Cook - 2013 - Nursing Inquiry 20 (2):145-155.
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