Investigates the personal and political dimensions of health risk that structure everyday thought and action. This book aims to reflect upon the meaning and significance of risk across a range of social and institutional contexts, exploring various issues. It is useful for students, teachers, researchers, and policy makers.

1. Health Risk and Vulnerability: An Introduction - Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson 2. Unlimited Medicalization? Risk and the Pathologization of Normality - John-Arne Skolbekken 3. Community Care, Risk and the Shifting Focus of Danger and Vulnerability in Mental Health - Joanne Warner 4. Governmentality and the Subpolitics of Teenage Sexual Risk Behaviour - Joost Van Loon 5. Restructuring Health Care: Developing Systems to Identify Risk and Prevent Harm - Andy Alaszewski and Kirstie Coxon 6. Ecological Validity and Risk Management in Forensic Mental Health Services - Jacqueline Daves, Paul Godin and Bob Heyman 7. Talking and Taking Risks: An Exploration of Women's Perceptions of Antenatal Testing in Pregnancy - Dawn S. Jones 8. Constructing Virtual Selves: Men Risk and the Rehearsal of Sexual Identities - Anthony Pryce 9. Reframing Risk: How Risk Discourses are used by Vaccine Critical Groups in the UK - Pru Hobson-West