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How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to secondary status? This book explores how we decide what risks to take and which to ignore, both as individuals and as a culture.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Can We Know the Risks We Face?
I Risks are Hidden
II Risks are Selected
III Scientists Disagree
IV Assessment is Biased
v The Center is Complacent
VI The Border is Alarmed
VII The Border Fears for Nature
VIII America is a Border Country
IX The Dialogue is Political
Conclusion: Risk is a Collective Construct
Notes
Index

Risk and Culture

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    A Paperback / softback by Mary Douglas, Aaron Wildavsky

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 27/10/1983
      ISBN13: 9780520050631, 978-0520050631
      ISBN10: 0520050630
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to secondary status? This book explores how we decide what risks to take and which to ignore, both as individuals and as a culture.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Can We Know the Risks We Face?
      I Risks are Hidden
      II Risks are Selected
      III Scientists Disagree
      IV Assessment is Biased
      v The Center is Complacent
      VI The Border is Alarmed
      VII The Border Fears for Nature
      VIII America is a Border Country
      IX The Dialogue is Political
      Conclusion: Risk is a Collective Construct
      Notes
      Index

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