Health care through the ‘lens of risk’
Reflections on the recent series of four special issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21148804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bob Heyman (University of Huddersfield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 615-623 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Risk & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8575 • E-ISSN: 1469-8331 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698575.2013.870536 |
| OpenAlex | W2008487628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 38 |
in 2012-2013 which marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the Royal Society Risk report in 1992.In these Issues we showed how the objectivist definition of risk in this monograph as 'the probability that a particular adverse event occurs during a stated period of time, or results from a particular challenge' could be fruitfully reframed from an interpretivist standpoint.From this perspective, events are considered to derive variably from categorisation, adversity from negative valuing, probabilities from uncertain expectations, and stated periods of time from time-framing.In the editorial, I provide an overview of 23 research papers published in the special issues with references to the potential of interpretivist approaches to the social science of risk, and offer reflections on the strengths and limitations of this paradigm
Health care · Optics · Physics · Political science · Sociology · Through-the-lens metering · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Public Health Policies and Education · Optometry
Risk and social theory – a new venture and some new avenues
Why do organisations implement automated external defibrillators
Conflicting rationalities of risk
The Lemming-effect
Health condition and risk attitude in the Dutch population
Conceiving of risk in childbirth
When it’s good to be a bad nurse
Risk-Taking and Research Funding
Symbolic Interactionism
A risk worth taking? Value differences and alternative risk constructions in accounts given by patients and their community workers following conditional discharge from forensic mental health services
‘We thought if it’s going to take two years then we need to start that now’
‘Our tariff will rise’
Time frames and self-hurting
‘I’m pregnant … what am I going to do?’ An examination of value judgements and moral frameworks in teenage pregnancy decision making
Perspectives on the ‘lens of risk’ interview series
Between tolerable uncertainty and unacceptable risks
Risk categorisation through standard deviations – the challenge of bone density measurements
Perspectives on ‘the lens of risk’ interview series
‘The sooner you can change their life course the better’
Assessing the probability of patients reoffending after discharge from low to medium secure forensic mental health services
Considering a future which may not exist
Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative? The variable value dynamics of non-suicidal self-hurting
Perspectives on the ‘lens of risk’ interview series
The structure of medical decisions
The precautionary principle in the pharmaceutical domain
Fateful moments and the categorisation of risk
Is it time for the sociology of health to abandon ‘risk’
The influence of popular media on perceptions of personal and population risk in possible disease outbreaks
Making sense of melancholy
Drinking alcohol at home and in public places and the time framing of risks
Magazine portrayal of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD)
Perceptions of non-accidental child deaths as preventable events
The case of the lady who risked exploding
‘I am not someone who gets skin cancer’
Risk and social theory – a new venture and some new avenues
From danger to risk
‘We are the canary in a coal mine’
Risk, safety, and clinical practice
Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty
Risk and Everyday Life
Managing risk through treatment-seeking in rural north-western Tanzania
Risk and Technological Culture
Risk society
Enhancing the Rigor of Grounded Theory
| Citations per year | 0.62 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |