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Health, Risk & Society Volume 14, 2012 - Issue 2: Special Issue Series – Health Care Through the ‘Lens of Risk’: Special Issue One (of Four): The categorisation of health risks
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Editorial

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

Bob Heyman School of Human and Health Science, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Andy Alaszewski Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
&
Patrick Brown Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pages 107-115 | Published online: 16 Mar 2012

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