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Book SynopsisA range of distinguished anthropologists and sociologists re-examine the concept of risk in contemporary societies.
Trade Review'An authoritative and compelling text exploring risk from a variety of cultural perspectives, highly recommended reading to anyone studying social sciences' -- Stuart Agnew, Lecturer in Criminology
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Risk Revisited by Pat Caplan
2. The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes by Sophie Day
3. Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania by Janet Bujra
4. Conflicting Models of Risk: Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis by Alison Shaw
5. Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation by Penny Vera-Sanso
6. A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland by Paul Killworth
7. The Eruption of Chances Peak: Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk by Jonathan Skinner
8. 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain by Pat Caplan
9. Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models by Simon Cohn
10. Good Risk, Bad risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia by Stephen Nugent
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