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‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of...
Living with risk and everyday sense-making ‘It’s like getting your car checked’: the social construction of diabetes risk among participants in a population study In western industrialised societies, asymptomatic individuals...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Living with risk and everyday sense-making
‘The ones who die are lost and the survivors are...
Risk governance and governmentality ‘The ones who die are lost and the survivors are what we have’: neoliberal governmentality and the governance of Covid-19 risk in social media posts in...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Risk governance and governmentality
Conceptualising the experience of health risk: the case of everyday...
Public health and individual health care are increasingly oriented towards managing risks. This ‘surveillance medicine’ does not target present illnesses but aims to prevent possible future conditions, greatly expanding the...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Living with risk and everyday sense-making
Difficult dialogues about death: applying risk orders theory to analyse...
Understandings of risk permeate end-of-life (EOL) care contexts. In addition to the risk of bodily death, patients, family and healthcare providers face spiritual and communication risks during EOL care. The...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Healthcare work and multiple risks
Italian Sociological Review – Vol. 12 No. 8S (2022)
The articles in this issue below: "Living on the Volcano of Civilization”. For the Thirtieth Anniversary of Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society Fabio D'Andrea, Andrea Lombardinilo World Risk Society and Ulrich...
Category Health, Risk & Society
Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky...
Risk governance and governmentality Problematising older motherhood in Canada: ageism, ableism, and the risky maternal subject This article examines how older motherhood and older mothers are problematised and represented in...
Category Health, Risk & Society, Risk governance and governmentality
