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 …

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 …

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 …

'Risk'has been a fruitful seam for sociological enquiry about health and illness, generating
theoretical understanding of the links between cultural analysis of modernity and the ways in …

This paper examines a type of voluntary risk-taking, orientation to risk and risk rhetoric,
which we call 'go (ing) for it.'Although occasionally acknowledged in the field of clinical risk …

In the practice of health surveillance, health professionals have to cope with the task of
communicating outcomes of tests and measurements, as well as counselling individuals …

In research on health and illness, studies using a narrative approach are gaining ground in
a context where a statistical quantitative approach as well as an 'objective'approach to …

Risk perception is a highly personal process of decision making, based on an individual's
frame of reference developed over a lifetime, among many other factors. A body of research …

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 …

Epidemiology is the main supplier of “bases of action” for preventive medicine and health
promotion. Epidemiology and epidemiologists therefore have a responsibility not only for the …