Pat Caplan is one of the founders of the Anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, UoL and was formerly the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UoL. She is the author of Risk Revisited (Pluto Press, 2000) and The Ethics of Anthropology (Routledge, 2003).

'An authoritative and compelling text exploring risk from a variety of cultural perspectives, highly recommended reading to anyone studying social sciences'

• 1. Introduction: Risk Revisited by Pat Caplan2. The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes by Sophie Day3. Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania by Janet Bujra4. Conflicting Models of Risk: Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis by Alison Shaw5. Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation by Penny Vera-Sanso6. A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland by Paul Killworth7. The Eruption of Chances Peak: Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk by Jonathan Skinner8. 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain by Pat Caplan9. Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models by Simon Cohn10. Good Risk, Bad risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia by Stephen NugentContributorsIndex