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

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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.

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, 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.