By Professor Deborah Lupton

Book Chapters

Lupton D, 2016, 'Personal data practices in the age of lively data', in Digital Sociologies

Lupton D, 2016, 'Personal data practices in the age of lively data', in Digital Bodies

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

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