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Health, Risk & Society
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 Autore GA Norddal, Å Wifstad & OS. Lian
Health, Risk & Society
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 Autore Selin Atalay
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Vaccination has long been a central tool in the management of infectious disease – though it is not without associated controversy and resistance. The COVID-19 pandemic has served to enhance...
Health, Risk & Society
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 Autore Mikko Jauho
Covid-19 and the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty Studies of Social Phenomena and Social Theory Across 6 Continents This book provides a global perspective on COVID-19, taking the heterogenous realities...
Category Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty Autore Kritika Maheshwari, Fernanda Sousa-Duarte, Melina Tobías, Soledad Fernández Bouzo, Henry Rothstein, David Demeritt, Regine Paul, Li Wang, Linda Kvarnlöf, Paul R. Ward, Kristen Foley, Samantha B. Meyer, Jessica Thomas, Eliza Huppatz, Ian Olver et al., Brenda Focás, Esteban Zunino, Magdalena Gil, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Dean Curran, Rolf Lidskog, Adam Standring, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Darshan Daryanani.
Health, Risk & Society
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 Autore Katie Margavio Striley, Kelly E. Tenzek, Kimberly Field-Springer
Extraordinary Risks, Ordinary Lives Logics of Precariousness in Everyday Contexts “This collection of essays provides a wonderful insight into the very ordinary way that us, human beings engage with risk...
Category Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty Autore Beata Świtek, Allen Abramson, Marie Kolling, Mei L. Trueba, Alessandro Blasimme, Atreyee Sen, Julie L. Shackelford, Matthew Bunn, Stephen Lyng, Janine Su, Giovanni Gugg, Hannah Swee, Karen Henwood
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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 Autore Fabio D'Andrea, Andrea Lombardinilo, Andrea Antonilli, Antonio Camorrino, Maria Grazia Galantino, Mihaela Gavrila, Marco Cilento
Health, Risk & Society
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 Autore Francesca Scala, Michael Orsini
Risk studies have shown that many people rather than following rational means of managing risk refer to non-rational (hope, faith) and in-between rationales (trust, intuition), which are not irrational but...
Autore Schulz, M. & Zinn, J. O.
Abstract Even though risk-taking is a common and widespread social experience sociological theorizing on the concept is scarce. This contribution aims to systematize and advance understanding of risk-taking and its...
Autore Zinn, J. O.
Die Begriffe reflexive bzw. zweite Moderne und Risikogesellschaft gehen auf Ulrich Beck zurück, der Mitte der 1980er-Jahre einen radikalen Wandel im gesellschaftlichen Verständnis und Umgang mit Natur und Technik diagnostizierte. Die Erfolge der Moderne und insbesondere...
Autore Jens O. Zinn