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

This paper revisits the concept of medicalisation and considers its value as a framework for
understanding the ongoing development of new reproductive technologies, and their impact …

En este estudio de caso realizado con jóvenes en Cuernavaca se busca comprender
sociológicamente los significados que los agentes sociales atribuyen al cuerpo y al riesgo …

This research is a diachronic case study of a series of sentinel ethical events at a medical
research facility as represented in the media, in courtroom dialogue and in academic …

In this dissertation, I look to contemporary menopause management in the Southwest,
United States, as an ideal case study of the'real world'negotiation of a widespread …

Definition of the problem The ideal of a truly predictive medicine vested with effective causal
strategies of prevention down to the molecular level is far from being reality. However, we …