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Risk revisited

Title
Risk revisited / edited by Pat Caplan.
ISBN
0745314686
Published
London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
Physical Description
viii, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Risk revisited / Pat Caplan
The politics of risk among London prostitutes / Sophie Day
Risk and trust: unsafe sex, gender and AIDS in Tanzania / Janet Bujra
'Conflicting models of risk': clinical genetics and British Pakistanis / Alison Shaw
Risk-talk: the politics of risk and its representation / Penny Vera-Sanso
A risky cease-fire: British infantry soldiers and Northern Ireland / Paul Killworth
The eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the narrative containment of risk / Jonathan Skinner
'Eating British beef with confidence': a consideration of consumers' responses to BSE in Britain / Pat Caplan
Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with a chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models / Simon Cohn
Good risk, bad risk: reflexive modernisation and Amazonia / Stephen Nugent.
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