The ANRS-EN12-VESPA 2003 survey interviewed a national, representative sample of the HIV-positive population attending hospital outpatient services. Conducting the survey in a hospital made it easier to identify and contact HIV-positive patients, but involved various biases : the role of the...

Nowadays, experts are often said to be affected with a generalized "risquophobia", by using the notion of risk in order to blame technical innovations and business spirit. But a historical and sociological appraisal of the notion of risk leads to radically different conclusions. Firstly, the...

The concept of ??risk culture?? coined by Giddens offers an opportunity for communication of ideas between sociology and economics, because it assumes that today everyone is requested to behave as a ??homo oeconomicus??. But in general a new norm encounters resistance, it has to compromise with...