Undertaking a task involving a challenge without certainty of success, or behavior with possible outcomes involving harm

Two footballers tumbling on top of each other on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.

A man who has lost use of his limbs by taking a risk. Colour lithograph by R..l (?), 1929.

A footballer grabs the genitals of another player on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.

The negative impression of 3 profile male faces in red and black with a message about the need to fight against AIDS and risky behaviour; an advertisement by the Independent Anti-AIDS Committee in Valladolid. Colour lithograph.

A footballer pulling the shorts down of another player on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.

Risk, survival, and power : axioms managers live by / Robert Kirk Mueller.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 45.3 x 63.2 cm

Health, risk, and vulnerability / edited by Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson.

The psychology of risk / Glynis M. Breakwell.

Boys to men in the shadow of AIDS : masculinities and HIV risk in Zambia / Anthony Simpson.

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Risk-Taking

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Risk, survival, and power : axioms managers live by / Robert Kirk Mueller.

A footballer pulling the shorts down of another player on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.

Health, risk, and vulnerability / edited by Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson.

The psychology of risk / Glynis M. Breakwell.

Boys to men in the shadow of AIDS : masculinities and HIV risk in Zambia / Anthony Simpson.

Risk-Taking

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Risk, survival, and power : axioms managers live by / Robert Kirk Mueller.

A footballer pulling the shorts down of another player on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.

Health, risk, and vulnerability / edited by Alan Petersen and Iain Wilkinson.

The psychology of risk / Glynis M. Breakwell.

Boys to men in the shadow of AIDS : masculinities and HIV risk in Zambia / Anthony Simpson.

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