'Go for it!' towards a critical realist approach to voluntary risk-taking

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 319-336

  Parker, John ^a   Stanworth, Hilary ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commitments; Critical realism; Persons; Risk; Risk taking agents; Voluntary risk taking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTUITION; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TIME MANAGEMENT; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 31144435698     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698570500390853     Document Type: Article

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