To a lesser extent, scholars have also highlighted the forms of embodied risk stemming from elevated PSA levels (Evans et al, 2007; Gillespie, 2012) and testing positive for HPV (Kavanagh and Broom, 1997; Aronowitz, 2010) – factors associated with heightened prostate and cervical cancer risk, respectively, but that do not in themselves constitute evidence of the disease.
Moreover, these embodied risks are distributed unevenly within societies and across the globe, capitalizing on asymmetries and hierarchies within and across categories of class, gender, and ethnicity.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the economic precariat of deindustrialization, women, and ethnic minorities assume the predominant share of the embodied risks of biomedical innovation.
Discriminating between the speculative risks of innovation assumed by scientists and investors and the "visceral risks" of the clinical laborer, the bioeconomy in turn "depends on the devolution of uninsurable, embodied risks to the clinical laborer" (p. 32).
It is as if investors are more interested in buying or selling exposure to risk than particular assets, so many markets that are perceived to embody risk move as one.
A definition of risk analysis was developed, through a series of consultations, that embodies risk assessment, risk management and risk communication (CAC 2005).
In a sense, the crisis of pharmaceutical research was partially resolved by "contracting out" experimental labor (and its embodied experimental risks) both institutionally and nationally.
Tightrope artists in the movies embody physical risk and are variously attractive, entrancing or sympathetically comic.
"Mobile communication devices offer a great amount of freedom, but also embody the risk of no longer being able to switch off," the company said.
Finally, this affordability is made possible only via lower manufacturing and labor costs, which embodies much risk for human welfare (Joy et al. 2012).
Both Mr Humala and Ms Fujimori embody risks that a majority of Peruvians would prefer not to entertain.
