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Health, Risk & Society

VOLUME 1, Number 3, November 1999

Special Issue: Risk and the New Genetics

Guest Editors: Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Anne Kerr

Editorial
Sarah Cunningham-Burley & Anne Kerr. The new genetics: risks and boundaries 249

Counselling, Choice and Restraint
Alan Petersen. Counselling the genetically ‘at risk’: the poetics and politics of ‘non-directiveness’ 253

Nina Hallowell. Advising on the management of genetic risk: offering choice or prescribing action? 267

Abby Lippman. Choice as a risk to women’s health 281

Ruth Chadwick. Genetics, choice and responsibility 293

Regulation, Consultation and Publics

Andrew Webster & Annemiek Nelis. Regulating the gene: from genetic consumption to regulatory trust 301

Peter Glasner & David Dunkerley. The new genetics, public involvement, and citizen’s juries: a Welsh case study 313

Tony McGleenan. Rating risk: insurance, genetics and law 325

Graeme T. Laurie. Wielding the implement of law: distilling new rights and responsibilities in the age of the ‘New Genetics’ 333

Review Essay
John Eldridge & Alison Hill. Thinking about risk: a review essay 343

Book Reviews 351

Title Page, Contents and Author Index, 1999 357


Health, Risk & Society

VOLUME 1, Number 2, July 1999

EDITORIALS
Bob Heyman. Risk analysis and health practice 149

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein & Michael Spackman, with Judith Rees &
Robert Baldwin.
Explaining risk regulation regimes: exploring the ‘minimal feasible response’ hypothesis 151

Colin A. Holmes & Philip Warelow. Implementing psychiatry as risk management: DSM-IV as a postmodern taxonomy 167

Sara M. Morris. Lumps in the breast: negotiating risks after a cancer diagnosis 179

Martyn Denscombe & Nicky Drucquer. Critical incidents and invulnerability to risk: young people’s experience of serious health-related incidents and their willingness to take health risks 195

Maura Banim, Alison Guy & Paul Tasker. Trapped in risky behaviour: empowerment, disabled people and sexual health 209

REVIEW ARTICLES
Stephen R. Sutton. How accurate are smokers’ perceptions of risk? 223

Bryan S. Turner. Reassessing the body: a review essay 231

Silvia Gherardi. Man-Made Disasters 20 years later: critical commentary 233

BOOK REVIEWS 241


Health, Risk & Society

VOLUME 1, Number 1, March 1999

EDITORIALS
Andy Alaszewski & Jill Manthorpe. Health, risk and society: a stimulus and
catalyst 5

Graham Hart. Risk and health: challenges and opportunity 7

THE MEANING OF RISK
Mildred Blaxter. Risk, health and social research: lessons from the ESRC programme on Risk and Human Behaviour 11

Judith Green. From accidents to risk: public health and preventable injury 25

Jack Dowie. Communication for better decisions: not about ‘risk’ 41

RISK COMMUNICATION AND HEALTH
Jenny Kitzinger. Researching risk and the media 55

James Tansey & Tim O’Riordan. Cultural theory and risk: a review 71

Kirk Heilbrun, Joel Dvoskin, Stephen Hart & Dale McNiel. Violence risk communication: implications for research, policy, and practice 91

RISK IN PRACTICE
K. C. Calman, P. G. Bennett & D. G. Coles. Risks to health: some key issues in management, regulation and communication 107

Eileen M. Munro. Protecting children in an anxious society 117

BOOK REVIEWS 129

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