Risk revisited /

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Other Authors:	Caplan, Patricia
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
Series:	Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:	Risk > Sociological aspects. Risk perception. Risk perception > Cross-cultural studies. PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy. Risk perception Risk > Sociological aspects Risico nemen. Interculturele vergelijking. Sociologische aspecten. Cross-cultural studies
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Table of 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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