Risk and innovative health technologies: Calculation, interpretation and regulation

A J Webster

doi:10.1080/1369857021000016597

Risk and innovative health technologies: Calculation, interpretation and regulation

A J Webster

Sociology

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Abstract

This paper offers an introduction to the three themes that organise the papers in this special issue of Health, Risk & Society. These relate to the calculus, interpretation and regulation of health risk. The papers describe in differing ways the interface between the social and the biological, and the introduction suggests how this leads to a consideration of constructivist and realist approaches towards risk and the need to bridge the two, not only for methodological but also practical (regulatory) purposes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	221-226
Number of pages	6
Journal	Health, Risk and Society
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1369857021000016597
Publication status	Published - Nov 2002

Keywords

risk
innovative health technology
negotiation
the body
regulation

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