For 30 years, more attention and resources have been expended on dissecting problems
(risk assessment) than on evaluating actual solutions that reduce risks. The basic dogma …

The relationship between individual and population health is partially built on the broad
dichotomization of medicine into clinical medicine and public health. Potential drawbacks of …

Policy and technology actors seem to focus' ʼnaturally''on risk rather than on technology's
social and ethical impacts that typically constitute an important focus of concern for …

Background Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with
mediating risk. However, people often resist the risk‐related information that is …

The US National Human Genome Research Institute defines precision medicine as
follows:“Precision medicine (generally considered analogous to personalized medicine or …

A significant proportion of symptoms are medically unexplained. People experience illness
but no pathological basis for the symptoms can be discerned by the medical profession …

We honor randomness in the abstract but seek to manage it in practice, to constrain
misfortune in reassuring frameworks of meaning. We want health to make predictive sense …

“People take precautions in order to reduce their risks.” This statement may seem obvious,
but it is not necessarily true. Just because people act in ways that protect their health does …

In the past two decades public concerns about the risks of technologies have been
expressed in extended media coverage, frequent controversies, and increased litigation and …

Embodiment. This construct and process are central to ecosocial theory and epidemiological
inquiry. Recognising that we, as humans, are simultaneously social beings and biological …