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Editorial

Health care through the `lens of risk' and the categorisation of health risks – An editorial

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Pages 107-115 | Published online: 16 Mar 2012

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Paula Byrne, Órla O’Donovan, Susan M Smith & John Cullinan. (2019) Medicalisation, risk and the use of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a scoping review of the literature. Health, Risk & Society 21:7-8, pages 390-406.
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Paula Byrne, Órla O’Donovan, Susan M Smith & John Cullinan. (2020) A qualitative exploration of the prescribing and use of statins in asymptomatic people in Ireland: A case of medicalisation, biomedicalisation and pharmaceuticalisation. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 25:5, pages 630-648.
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Anette Lykke Hindhede. (2018) The Communicability of Non-Communicable Diseases: An Overview of Sociological Contributions to Ideas of Contagion. Sociological Research Online 23:3, pages 655-670.
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Katarina Giritli Nygren & Anna Olofsson. (2014) Intersectional Approaches in Health‐Risk Research: A Critical Review. Sociology Compass 8:9, pages 1112-1126.
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