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Health, Risk & Society Volume 15, 2013 - Issue 1: Health Care through the ‘Lens of Risk’ Special Issue Three of Four: Probabilistic Thinking and Health Risks
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Probabilistic thinking and health risks: An editorial

Bob Heyman School of Human and Health Science, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Andy Alaszewski Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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Patrick Brown Department of Sociology and Anthropology,, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pages 1-11 | Received 01 Dec 2012, Accepted 01 Dec 2012, Published online: 14 Apr 2013

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