Anatomy of Risk

William D. Rowe, An Anatomy of Risk, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1977. 

Rowe, in An Anatomy of Risk, gave this definition of risk, which supports Lowrance s definition ... 

Rowe, W. D. 1988. An Anatomy of Risk. Malabar, FL Robert E. Krieger Publishing, 24. Sandman, P. M. 1985. Getting to maybe Some communications aspects of siting hazardous waste facilities. Seton Hall Legislative Journal, 9 442-465. 

Rowe, W. D. 1988. An Anatomy of Risk. Malabar, FL Robert E. Krieger Publishing. 

Flyvbjerg, B., Rothengatter, W. and Bruzelius, N. (2003). Megaprojects and Risk-An Anatomy of Ambition. Cambridge University Press. 

Knowledge of the anatomy of the blood supply of the brain is often helpful in understanding the etiology and mechanisms of TIA and stroke, which enable accurate targeting of acute treatment and secondary prevention. An awareness of the mechanisms underpinning the regulation of cerebral blood flow allows the clinician to identify patients at risk of stroke and assess the possible effects of treatments. 

The surface electrocardiography (ECG) in both acute and chronic phase of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) may give crucial information about the coronary artery involved and which is the area of myocardium that is at risk or already infarcted. This information jointly with the ECG-clinical correlation is very important for prognosis and risk stratification, as will be demonstrated in this book. Therefore, we will give in the following pages an overview of the anatomy of the heart, especially the heart walls and coronary tree, and emphasise the best techniques currently used for its study. 

Epidemiologic studies reveal that the lifetime risk of appendicitis is 8.6% for males and 6.7% for females. The lifetime risk of appendectomy is 12.0% for males and 23.1% for females (Addiss et al. 1990). These data stress the social and economic impact of appendicitis and the need to improve the diagnosis. The pathogenesis of appendicitis is conditioned by the speciflc cul-de-sac anatomy of the appendix being prone to develop ectasia, fecalith formation, obstruction and/or infection followed by ischemia, necrosis and perforation (Gray and Ashley 1986). 

The anatomy of uterine fibroids and uterine artery embolization (UAE) consists of the fibroids, their position in the uterus, and the vasculature associated with the uterus. The vasculature of the ovarian arteries is also important because of the potential for collateral blood flow from the ovarian arteries supplying the fibroids. Communication between the uterine arteries and the ovarian arteries are also important because of the risk of embolization of the ovaries through uterine-ovarian anastomoses. 

The anatomy of an accident can be found in Green, A.E. (1988), Human factors in industrial risk assessment - some early work, in Goodstein, L.P., Andersen, H.B. and Olsen, S.E. (eds). Task, Errors and Mental Models, London Taylor Francis. The anatomy is a generic Fault Tree that can be expanded recursively. Failure of control, for instance, can be seen as the top event of another anatomy Fault Tree, and so on. In that sense the anatomy is a general fault model. 

Flyvbeig, B, Bruzetius, N., Rothengetter, W. (2003). Megaprojects at risk An anatomy of ambition. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

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