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.
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.
Both Mr Humala and Ms Fujimori embody risks that a majority of Peruvians would prefer not to entertain.
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).
Finally, this affordability is made possible only via lower manufacturing and labor costs, which embodies much risk for human welfare (Joy et al. 2012).
Tightrope artists in the movies embody physical risk and are variously attractive, entrancing or sympathetically comic.
For the Jaguars, signing the famously and outspokenly unhappy Porter is a small gamble, one that embodies the risk-and-reward calculus each team faces in free agency.
"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.
