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Title: | The social amplification of risk and the hazard sequence: The October 1995 oral contraceptive pill scare |
Authors: | Barnett, J Breakwell, GM |
Keywords: | Risk;Risk communication;Social amplification of risk;Oral contraceptive pill;Hazard sequence;Hazard template |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Citation: | Health, Risk and Society. 5(3): 301-313 |
Abstract: | Hazard notifications routinely occur as part of the identification or management of a hazard. It is argued that a series of such notifications - a hazard sequence - may affect public responses to future notifications about that hazard and also that hazard sequences can help explain patterns of risk amplification, particularly how a risk becomes normalised. Exploration of the hazard sequence also means exploring hazard templates: frameworks through which people make sense of risk information across the lifetime of the hazard. Events surrounding the 1995 oral contraceptive 'pill scare' are used to illustrate the way in which a hazard sequence might operate. |
URI: | http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a713661598~fulltext=713240930 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3925 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698570310001606996 |
ISSN: | 1369-8575 |
Appears in Collections: | Computer Science Dept of Computer Science Research Papers |
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