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The Construction of Health Risk and the Demand for Disease Prevention, 1945-2000
Award Year: 2000 Investigator: Robert AronowitzWhile many newly defined health risks have elicited major societal and biomedical responses such as screening tests and risk-reducing drugs, others have not. Dr. Aronowitz examines how values and interests of various stakeholders influence how we recognize, name, define, and respond to health risks. His project traces the history of these risks in the U.S. since World War II and seeks to explain how they have been discovered, promoted, and made the object of prevention practices.
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