By Professor Deborah Lupton

Book Chapters

Yu H; Xu J, 2016, 'E'gao as a Networked Digital Leisure Practice', in McGuillivray G; McPherson G; Carnicelli S (ed.), Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical Perspectives, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 152 - 165

Lupton D, 2016, 'Purity and Danger', in , Wiley, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos0729

Lupton D, 2015, 'Health Risk Behavior', in , Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosh016.pub2

Lupton D, 2015, 'Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies', in Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health Illness and Medicine, pp. 567 - 581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-35562-1_36

Lupton D, 2015, 'Donna Haraway: The digital cyborg assemblage and the new digital health technologies', in Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health Illness and Medicine, pp. 567 - 581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137355621.0045

Lupton D, 2015, 'Donna Haraway: The Digital Cyborg Assemblage and the New Digital Health Technologies', in The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 567 - 581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137355621_36

Lupton D, 2014, 'Digital Sociology', in , Routledge

Lupton D, 2014, 'Unborn Assemblages', in Reframing Reproduction, Springer Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137267139.0013

Lupton D, 2014, 'The reproductive citizen: Motherhood and health education', in Health Education Critical Perspectives, pp. 48 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203387993

Lupton D, 2014, 'Unborn Assemblages: Shifting Configurations of Embryonic and Foetal Embodiment', in Nash M (ed.), REFRAMING REPRODUCTION: CONCEIVING GENDERED EXPERIENCES, PALGRAVE, pp. 101 - 114, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342449500007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2014, 'Unborn Assemblages: Shifting Configurations of Embryonic and Foetal Embodiment', in Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences, pp. 101 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137267139_7

Lupton D, 2013, 'Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter', in Sociology of Health and Illness A Reader, pp. 198 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315013015-27

Lupton D, 2013, 'Contingencies of the Unborn', in SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE UNBORN, PALGRAVE, pp. 12 - 32, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000327329100002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2013, 'Death, Disposal and the Unborn', in SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE UNBORN, PALGRAVE, pp. 70 - 91, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000327329100005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2013, 'Imaging the Unborn', in SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE UNBORN, PALGRAVE, pp. 33 - 51, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000327329100003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2013, 'Risk and governmentality', in Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader, pp. 85 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203820070

Lupton D, 2013, 'The Endangered Unborn', in SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE UNBORN, PALGRAVE, pp. 92 - 112, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000327329100006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2013, 'The Social Worlds of the Unborn Final Thoughts', in SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE UNBORN, PALGRAVE, pp. 113 - 119, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000327329100007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2013, 'The Social Worlds of the Unborn Introduction', in SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE UNBORN, PALGRAVE, pp. 1 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000327329100001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2013, 'The Unborn within the Self: Women's Experiences of Pregnancy', in SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE UNBORN, PALGRAVE, pp. 52 - 69, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000327329100004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lupton D, 2013, 'Final Thoughts', in The Social Worlds of the Unborn, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 113 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137310729_7

Lupton D, 2013, 'Introduction', in The Social Worlds of the Unborn, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137310729_1

Schmied V; Lupton D, 2012, 'Blurring the boundaries: Breastfeeding and maternal subjectivity', in Abjectly Boundless Boundaries Bodies and Health Work, pp. 15 - 31

Lupton D, 2011, '‘You feel so responsible’: Australian mothers’ concepts and experiences related to promoting the health and development of their young children', in Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication Meaning Culture and Power, pp. 113 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203891223

Schmied V; Lupton D, 2010, 'Blurring the boundaries: Breastfeeding and maternal subjectivity', in Abjectly Boundless Boundaries Bodies and Health Work, pp. 15 - 31

Lupton D, 2007, 'Medicine and Health Care in Australia', in Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology, pp. 428 - 440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996447.ch24

Lupton D, 2005, 'The diagnostic test and the danger within', in Sociology and Politics of Health A Reader, pp. 151 - 158

Lupton D; Seymour W, 2004, 'TECHNOLOGY, SELFHOOD AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY', in Communication Relationships and Care A Reader, pp. 167 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203494325-48

Lupton D; Seymour W, 2003, '‘I am Normal on the ’Net’: Disability, Computerised Communication Technologies and the Embodied Self', in Discourse, the Body, and Identity, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 246 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403918543_12

Lupton D, 2000, 'The Social Construction of Medicine and the Body', in Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 50 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848608412.n5

Lupton D, 1999, 'Introduction: risk and sociocultural theory', in Risk and Sociocultural Theory, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511520778.001

Lupton D, 1999, 'Risk and the ontology of pregnant embodiment', in Risk and Sociocultural Theory, Cambridge University Press, pp. 59 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511520778.004

Lupton D, 1995, 'The Embodied Computer/User', in Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 97 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446250198.n6

Edited Books

Lupton D, (ed.), 2025, Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives, Springer Nature, Singapore, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-9168-5

Lupton D; Leahy D, (ed.), 2022, Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning, Routledge, Abingdon, https://www.routledge.com/Creative-Approaches-to-Health-Education-New-Ways-of-Thinking-Making-Doing/Lupton-Leahy/p/book/9780367648343

Pink S; Berg M; Lupton D; Ruckenstein M, (eds.), 2022, EVERYDAY AUTOMATION: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003170884

Lupton D; Willis K, 2021, The COVID-19 crisis: Social Perspectives, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003111344

Lupton D; Feldman Z, (ed.), 2020, Digital Food Cultures, Routledge, London, info:YmpNcIkI8CUJ:scholar.google.com

Lupton D; Mewburn I; Thomson P, (eds.), 2018, The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education, Routledge, London, https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Digital_Academic.html?id=QRIwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lupton D, 2017, Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine Sociological Perspectives, Routledge

Lupton D, (ed.), 2017, Digitised Health, Medicine and Risk, Routledge, London, https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Digitised_Health_Medicine_and_Risk.html?id=1UtWDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lupton D, (ed.), 2015, Beyond Techno-utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies, MDPI, Basel, https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/125

Lupton D, (ed.), 1999, Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Risk_and_Sociocultural_Theory.html?id=hyf-YWZleFgC&redir_esc=y

Journal articles

Lupton D, 2025, 'Immunities in the COVID age: a sociomaterial and more-than-human perspective', Social Theory and Health, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41285-025-00224-x

Drysdale K; Lupton D, 2025, 'Immuno-biographies of people living with blood-borne viruses: a timeline interview and narrative case study approach', Ssm Qualitative Research in Health, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100575

Rousell D; Lupton D, 2025, 'Atmospheric Wellbeing: Sensing the More-Than-Human Dynamics of Air', Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15327086251387108

Lupton D; Drysdale K, 2025, 'Immune logics, immune selves and immunoprivilege in the COVID era: Perspectives from marginalised social groups', Social Science and Medicine, 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118481

Kolehmainen M; Lupton D, 2025, 'Teletherapy Matters – Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages', Social Science and Medicine, 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118418

Lupton D, 2025, 'Towards a digital planetary health perspective: generative AI and the digital determinants of health', Health Promotion International, 40, pp. daaf153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf153

Lupton D; Whitten T; Tay AK; Beek K; Green M; Hassoun F; Moussa B; Silove D; Rees S, 2025, 'Mental health and psychosocial factors predicting concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine among refugee background and Australian-born women', Vaccine, 58, pp. 127251 - 127251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127251

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