"Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health."

-- Deborah Lupton

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“We all have a responsibility to create a just society”

Source : "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.
“The crowning evidence that Jesus was alive was not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled away stone, but a carried away church.”
“How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.”
“The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.”
“If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.”
“How we look - though it is superficial and immutable - has a huge impact on our lives.”

Source : "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model". TED Talks, www.ted.com. October 2012.
“People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!”
“I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.”

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