Bob Heyman and Mike Titterton: Introduction
1: Bob Heyman: The concept of risk
2: Bob Heyman: The social construction of health risks
3: Bob Heyman: Values and health risks
4: All: Risk and probabilistic reasoning
5: All: Time and health risks
6: Andy Alaszewski: Information about health risks
7: Monica Shaw: Health risks and the media
8: Monica Shaw: The regulation of health risks
9: All: Health risk and the patient safety agenda
Bob Heyman is Professor of Health Care Risk Management in the
School of Human and Health Sciences at the University of
Huddersfield, and Professor Emeritus in Health Care Research at
City University, London. Previously, he held the post of Associate
Dean for Research at St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery,
City University. His research is concerned with qualitative
approaches in health care risk management. He has written
extensively on this topic
in relation to a wide range of clinical contexts, particularly
mental health and learning disability services and prenatal
chromosomal screening. Bob Heyman is currently collaborating with
the Care Quality
Commission in a study of risk screening of healthcare
organisations, and with The West Yorkshire Mental Health R&D
Consortium in a programme of research concerned with clinical risk
management in mental health services. Andy Alaszewski is an applied
social scientist with a BA honours degree (Social Anthropology,
Class I) and PhD (Social and Political Sciences) from the
University of Cambridge. In 2001, following a successful academic
career at the University of Hull he took up the posts
of Professor and Director of the Centre for Health Services Studies
at the University of Kent and is also Director of the Research
Design Service for the South East funded by the National Institute
for Health
Research. For the past 30 years he has been involved in research
focusing on policy making and the provision of health and social
care. Increasingly his interests have focussed on the ways in which
risk is framed within health and social care and the ways in which
risk issues influence and shape the development of health and
social care services. He is the founding editor of Health, Risk and
Society an international peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor
and Francis. Monica Shaw recently has
recently retired from the post of Senior Research Fellow at City
University, London. She is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria
University where she was previously the Executive Dean of Social
Sciences
and the Dean for Quality, holding institution-wide responsibility
for quality assurance systems. Her current research interests
include the history of women's action in coal mining disputes and
their changing role in ex-mining communities; the role of nurses in
the delivery of quality healthcare and the barriers to
multiprofessional risk management in forensic mental health
services; and the escalation of regulation in public services as a
response to critical cases. Monica Shaw has
considerable experience both as a senior manager and a critical
analyst of the impact of regulation on public and voluntary
services, and she has a long history of personal involvement in the
development and
governance of voluntary organisations in the North-East of England.
Dr. Mike Titterton is Chairperson of HALE (Health & Life for
Everyone), an international charity that helps children and adults
at risk of harm and provides training for health and social work
staff. He also works as an international expert in health, social
care and education for bodies such as the Council of Europe, NHS
Health Scotland and the World Health Organisation. He was
previously long-term expert and team
leader for an EU Tacis programme in health education in Russia and
has worked on several health and social care projects throughout
Eastern Europe. He has also worked for four universities in the UK,
as well
as in health care and social work in the past. His research and
professional interests include promoting risk literacy and reducing
harmful risk behaviours.
All the chapters are well written and will assist health
professionals, academics and students at undergraduate and
post-graduate level who grapple with challenges created by the
dominance of risk assessment. Its grounding in the real world of
health care helps clarify and make useful a number of complex
theoretical concepts, particularly within the areas of risk
categorization and conceptualization. This book succeeds in doing
what it sets out to do.
*Social Policy and Administration*
The book is the only one of its kind that really focuses on risk
from the inside of healthcare delivery and outside
cultural/societal influences.
*Doody's Notes*
This is a smart text about a field that has become very popular in
recent decades. The authors are all leading thinkers in this area
and have written a book that appears to try to appeal to a wide
audience of practitioner and academic...There are many more
messages to be unearthed in a book packed with different ways of
understanding things. So, enjoy the book! It has a great deal to
offer the reader.
*Health, Risk & Society*
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