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 …

Searches in MEDLINE databases show a rapid increase in the number of articles with the
term 'risk (s)'in the title and/or abstract in the period from 1967 to 1991. This trend is found in …

Epidemiology provides a good example of the dictum that the smaller and more specialised
a particular field is, the more ferocious are the internal battles fought by the initiates. Over the …

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 …

In the past two decades, the medical model has extended its jurisdiction to cover a new
medical entity—the at-risk health status—which is frequently accompanied by what I call a …

A dangerous distortion of priorities seems to be currently apparent in the dominant
approaches to major public health problems, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes …

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 …

The concept of risk is now well established as part of the language of social science. It is
widely accepted that the experience of everyday life is significantly influenced by the ways in …

The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well
as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with …

Battle lines have been drawn for a war among competing visions of epidemiology. What are
these visions and why are they in conflict? Consider the highly simplistic schema, one …