TY - JOUR
T1 - The social amplification of risk and the hazard sequence
T2 - The October 1995 oral contraceptive pill scare
AU - Barnett, Julie
AU - Breakwell, Glynis M.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698570310001606996
U2 - 10.1080/13698570310001606996
DO - 10.1080/13698570310001606996
M3 - Article
SN - 1369-8575
VL - 5
SP - 301
EP - 313
JO - Health Risk & Society
JF - Health Risk & Society
IS - 3
ER -