Quality and safety in healthcare settings are underpinned by organisational cultures, which
facilitate or impede the refinement, sharing and application of knowledge. Avoiding the use …

This editorial provides an introduction to and overview of the six papers published in this
special issue on Uncertainty and Risk in Everyday Life. While uncertainty and risk are …

Drawing on perspectives from the governmentality literature and the sociology of risk, this
article explores the strategies, tools and mechanisms for managing risk in acute hospital …

Objective Through the critical application of social theory, this paper will scrutinise how the
operations of risk management help to constitute midwives׳ understandings of childbirth in a …

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 …

Sociological health research on the concept of trust has been bedevilled by its
multivocalities. This article extends Luhmann's attempts to clarify a sociology of trust …

Colorectal cancer (CRC) has the second highest cancer prevalence and mortality rates in
Australia. The Australian National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) aims to …

Trust is vital for quality healthcare outcomes, yet existing research neglects the
'embodiedness' of the interactions on which trust is based. This article draws on qualitative …

This article reports on a study carried out on the impact of quality assurance mechanisms on
street-level bureaucrats in Northern England (teachers, nurses and social workers). A key …