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Deborah Lupton

Deborah Lupton 

 

Honorary Associate

Room 250 Transient building F12

+61 2 9351 4201

Deborah Lupton in an independent sociologist based in Sydney. She was previously Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at Charles Sturt University. She has published extensively on the topics of the social and cultural aspects of medicine and public health, risk, embodiment, HIV/AIDS, parenthood and the family, the emotions and food. Her current research is focusing on dimensions of maternal and child embodiment and on obesity as a sociocultural phenomenon.

Publications

Books

  • Lupton, D. (1994) Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires: AIDS in the News Media. London: Taylor & Francis (part of the Social Aspects of AIDS Series) (186pp).
  • Lupton, D. (1994) Medicine As Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies. London: Sage (182pp).
  • Chapman, S. and Lupton, D. (1994) The Fight for Public Health: Principles and Practice of Media Advocacy. London: British Medical Journal Publishing (270pp).
  • Lupton, D. (1995) The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body. London: Sage (181pp).
  • Lupton, D. (1996) Food, the Body and the Self. London: Sage (175pp) (translated in Japanese and published by Shinyosha Ltd, Japan (1999) and into Italian and published by Il Mulino Publishers (1999), Italy).
  • Petersen, A. and Lupton, D. (1996) The New Public Health: Health and Self in the Age of Risk. Sydney and London: Allen & Unwin/Sage (208pp).
  • Tulloch, J. and Lupton, D. (1997) Television, AIDS and Risk: A Cultural Studies Approach to Health Communication. Sydney: Allen & Unwin (part of the Australian Cultural Studies series) (236pp).
  • Lupton, D. and Barclay, L. (1997) Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences. London: Sage (176pp).
  • Lupton, D. (1998) The Emotional Self: a Sociocultural Exploration. London: Sage (195pp) (translated into Turkish and published by Ayrinti Yayinlari publishers (2002), Turkey).
  • Lupton, D. Risk (1999). London: Routledge (part of the Key Ideas in Sociology series) (184pp) (translated into Italian and published by Il Mulino Publishers (2003), Italy).
  • Lupton, D. (editor) (1999) Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (191pp).
  • Tulloch, J. and Lupton, D. (2003) Risk and Everyday Life. London: Sage (140pp).
  • Lupton, D. (2003) Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies (revised 2nd edition). London: Sage (202pp).
  • Lupton, D. (in press) Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body (revised 3rd edition). London: Sage.

Recent Book Chapters and Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Lupton, D. (2004) ‘A grim health future’: food risks in the Sydney press. Health, Risk & Society, 6(2), 187-200.
  • Seymour, W. and Lupton, D. (2004) Holding the line online: wired relationships for people with disabilities. Disability & Society, 19(4), 291-305.
  • Lupton, D. (2004) Pleasure, aggression and fear: the driving experiences of young Sydneysiders. In Mitchell, W. and Bunton, R. (eds), Young People, Risk and Leisure: Constructing Identities in Everyday Life. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 27-42.
  • Lupton, D. (2005) Lay discourses and beliefs related to food risks: an Australian perspective. Sociology of Health & Illness, 27(4), 448-67.
  • Lupton, D. (2006) The sociology of risk. In Mythen, G.and Walklate, S. (eds), Beyond the Risk Society: Critical Reflections on Risk and Human Security. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp.11-24.
  • Lupton, D. (2008) ‘You feel so responsible’: Australian mothers’ concepts and experiences related to promoting the health and development of their young children. In Zoller, H. and Dutta, M. (eds), Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power. New York: Routledge, pp. 113-128.
  • Schmied, V. and Lupton, D. (2010) Blurring the boundaries: breastfeeding and maternal subjectivity. In Rudge, T. and Holmes, D. (eds), Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work. Ashgate: Farnham and Burlington, pp. 15-32.
  • Lupton, D. (in press) ‘The best thing for the baby’: mothers’ concepts and experiences related to promoting their infants’ health and development. Health, Risk and Society
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