Medicine, Health and Risk
Subtitle: Sociological Approaches (Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph Series)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: December 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780631194842
First sentence: It is probably the case that most sociological interest in the field of risk has recently attached to the analysis of public discourses of risk; this is readily seen in the enthusiastic reception for Ulrich Beck's work (Beck 1992).