While it is generally accepted in writings on the sociocultural aspects of risk that risk and
emotion are interrelated, this relationship remains under-theorised. The literature on the …

This article reviews the main approaches to risk in psychology and sociology and considers
recent developments. It shows that research continues from a wide range of perspectives …

Most writing in the social sciences on risk-taking tends to represent it as the product of
ignorance or irrationality. The modern subject tends to be portrayed in this writing as risk …

Risk has become a dominant way to interpret who gets sick and why. A distinction has been
drawn between two categories of risk: those arising from the environment, and those …

Risk is a concept with multiple meanings and is ideologically loaded. The author reviews the
literature on risk perception and risk as a sociocultural construct, with particular reference to …

This article responds to Judith Green's (, p. 493–508, this issue) contribution 'Is it time for the
sociology of health to abandon “risk”?'It agrees with some of Green's criticisms of risk …

Abstract 'Risk'is a widely used concept in literatures related to health, health care and
medicine. In recent decades, three bodies of literature have emerged in which 'risk'is the …

Taking as its starting point a series of traditional divisions and debates, this paper
approaches issues of 'mental'health through the specific lens of the emotions. Key themes …

In risk research, culture has been used mainly as a'black box'of unknowns into
which'irregularities' of risk perceptions that could not be otherwise accounted for can be …

How does society affect health deep within the recesses of the human body? What role do
emotions play in these processes, and what light does this shed on the relationship between …