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Pleasure Consuming Medicine investigates the significance of the classification of drugs forconceptions of personhood in the context of consumer citizenship. It examines howdrug discourses operate politically to sustain particular notions of personhood andorganise bodies. As the normative conception of social life shifts to a discourse ofconsumer agency and active citizenship, it is argued, drugs come to describe the moralboundaries of a freedom configured around personal consumption. The thesis tracks theparallel rise of two discourses of drug mis/use from the 1970s - a discourse of 'drugabuse' and a discourse of 'patient compliance' - illustrating how these discourses bindpersonal agency to medical authority through a vocabulary of self-administration. Itdescribes how illicit drugs are constructed as a sign and instance of excessive conformity toconsumer culture, and how this excess is opportunistically scooped off andspectacularised to stage an intense but superficial battle between the amoral market andthe moral state. Pleasure Consuming Medicine uses a theoretical frame developed from queertheory, corporeal feminism, governmentality studies and cultural studies to explore thepolitical character of drug regimes, tracing some of the ramifications for sex, race, class,and citizenship. Then it turns to the field of gay men's HIV education to conceive somealternative and provisional vocabularies of safety. The thesis develops an argument onthe exercise of power in consumer society, with the aim of contributing to cultural andcritical understandings of consumption, embodiment, sex, health, and citizenship.

The ethical and social implications of data mining, algorithmic curation and automation in the context of social media have been of heightened concern for a range of researchers with interests in digital media in recent years, with particular concerns about privacy arising in the context of mobile and locative media. Despite their wide adoption and economic importance, mobile dating apps have received little scholarly attention from this perspective – but they are intense sites of data generation, algorithmic processing, and cross-platform data-sharing; bound up with competing cultures of production, exploitation and use. In this paper, we describe the ways various forms of data are incorporated into, and emerge from, hook-up apps' business logics, socio-technical arrangements, and cultures of use to produce multiple and intersecting data cultures. We propose a multi-layered research agenda for critical and empirical inquiry into this field, and suggest appropriate conceptual and methodological frameworks for exploring the social and political challenges of data cultures.

FrontMatter -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction--Barney Cohen -- Section I--The Nature of Racial and Ethnic Differences -- 2 Racial and Ethnic Identification, Official Classifications, and Health Disparities--Gary D. Sandefur, Mary E. Campbell, and Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck -- 3 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Mortality Among the U.S. Elderly Population--Robert A. Hummer, Maureen R. Benjamins, and Richard G. Rogers -- 4 Ethnic Differences in Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease--Jennifer J. Manly and Richard Mayeux -- Section II--Two Key Conceptual and Methodological Challenges -- 5 The Life-Course Contribution to Ethnic Disparities in Health--Clyde Hertzman -- 6 Selection Processes in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentials in Adult Health and Mortality--Alberto Palloni and Douglas C. Ewbank -- 7 Immigrant Health: Selectivity and Acculturation--Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and James P. Smith -- Section III--The Search For Causal Pathways -- 8 Genetic Factors in Ethnic Disparities in Health--Richard S. Cooper -- 9 Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health--Eileen M. Crimmins, Mark D. Hayward, and Teresa E. Seeman -- 10 The Role of Social and Personal Resources in Ethnic Disparities in Late-Life Health--Carlos F. Mendes de Leon and Thomas A. Glass -- 11 What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/ Ethnic Disparities in Health over the Life Course--Jeffrey D. Morenoff and John W. Lynch -- 12 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Behaviors: A Challenge to Current Assumptions--Marilyn A. Winkleby and Catherine Cubbin -- 13 Cumulative Psychosocial Risks and Resilience: A Conceptual Perspective on Ethnic Health Disparities in Late Life--Hector F. Myers and Wei-Chin Hwang.

Government departments responsible for energy and climate policy around the world, partly informed by low carbon energy system projections, have demonstrated support for development of carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS). However, as evidenced by the 2015 withdrawal of financial support for the UK CCS Commercialisation Competition, it has proven challenging to convince national treasuries of the merits of public support. For those budget holders, CCS may essentially be seen as a complex, expensive pollution control system that requires extensive up-front investment and adds to production costs. Our work at the Strathclyde Centre for Energy Policy (CEP) aims to move consideration of and narrative development around CCUS into the public policy domain that encompasses not only energy and climate, but also economic and social policies. An initial stage of our work culminated in 2018 through a series of policy briefing and research activities that had important impacts at Scottish, UK and European. This was through our evidence to the UK CCUS Cost Challenge Taskforce (see p.24 and recommendation #9 focussing on the need to assess value of CCUS to the wider UK economy) and our contribution to the 2019 Zero Emissions Platform report on 'The Role of CCUS in a Below Two Degrees Scenario'. The former fed through to consideration of CCUS infrastructure in an industrial cluster context in the UK Government's 2018 CCUS 'Action Plan'.