92 Risk and Health/Illness. Part II

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
OB 309 (Faculty of Economics)

TG04 Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (host committee)

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Session Organizers:
Martyn CHAMBERLAIN, Loughborough University, United Kingdom and Patrick BROWN, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chair:
Martyn CHAMBERLAIN, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Risk and uncertainty in Portuguese long-term care: An exploratory study (Oral Presentation)
Vitoria MOURAO, Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) University of Lisbon (UL), Portugal; Jorge Lopes da COSTA, Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), Portugal

Risk, ritual and health responsibilisation: Japan's 'safety blanket' of surgical face mask wearing (Oral Presentation)
Adam BURGESS, University of Kent, United Kingdom

Risk as knowledge or knowledge as risk? Parental perceptions and coping with newborns medically defined "at high risk" (Oral Presentation)
Hagit PERES, Ashkelon College, Ben Gurion University, Israel