Beyond beliefs: risk assessment technologies shaping patients' experiences of heart disease prevention

Social science research on lifestyle-related diseases typically focuses on patients' understandings and beliefs and takes the clinical risk for granted. We interviewed 30 healthy UK patients at high risk of heart disease, recruited from a family history trial at 2weeks and 6months after a discu...

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Main Authors: Paula Saukko, Hannah Farrimond, Philip H. Evans, Nadeem Qureshi
Format: Default Article
Published: 2012
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Sociology not elsewhere classified
Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Heart disease
Risk
Primary prevention
Cholesterol
Statins
Formal tools
Protodisease
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Sociology
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14274
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