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

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

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