The Unborn Human/bio

Deborah Lupton is in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She has published on topics such as the sociology of medicine and public health; the body; risk; parenting culture; pregnant, unborn and infant embodiment; HIV/AIDS; the emotions; food and obesity politics; and fat embodiment. She is the author of 13 books and the editor of one other. Her latest books are Medicine as Culture (2nd edition, Sage, 2012), Fat (Routledge, 2012), Risk (2nd edition, Routledge, 2013) and The Social Worlds of the Unborn (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Her blog is This Sociological Life.