Communicating Risk [Hardcover]

We live in world increasingly shaped by risk, a fact underscored by recent events in the financial markets, science and technology, environmental policy and biosecurity, law enforcement and criminal justice. Risk assessment has become a central concern of governments, organisations and the professions, and the communication of risk is a crucial part of professional work. Exploring how risk is discursively constructed across these domains is therefore central to our understanding of how professional practice affects people's lives. Communicating Risk takes up this challenge, with contributions from leading researchers and practitioners that examine key issues of risk communication across diverse professional domains.

We live in world increasingly shaped by risk and the communication of risk has become a crucial part of professional work. Communicating Risk is the first book to bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore key issues of risk communication across diverse professional domains.

1. Crucial Sites and Research Orientations: Exploring the Communication of Risk; Christopher N. Candlin, Jonathan Crichton and Arthur Firkins
PART I: COMMUNICATING RISK IN HEALTHCARE
2. Risk and Clinical Incident Disclosure: Navigating between Morality and Liability; Rick Iedema, Donella Piper, Katja Beitat, Suellen Allen, Kate Bower and Suyin Hor
3. 'Being Diplomatic with the Truth': The Discursive Management of Risk in Accounts of People Leaving Forensic Psychiatric Settings; Michael Coffey
4. Risk and Safety in Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: A Narrative Intervention in Residential Aged Care; Jonathan Crichton and Fiona O'Neill
5. Choice, Risk and Moral Judgement: Using Discourse Analysis to Identify the Moral Component of Midwives' Discourses; Mandie Scamell and Andy Alaszewski
PART II: COMMUNICATING RISK IN LEGAL PROCESSES
6. Risk, Law alì