Risk Revisited

Risk Revisited

Pat Caplan

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Editorial:
Pluto Books Ltd
Año de edición:
2000
Materia
Derecho de la salud y la seguridad pública
ISBN:
9780745314631
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This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered. They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety, are far more socially and culturally constructed - and far more contingent - than risk theorists generally admit. Topics covered include prostitutes in London; AIDS in Tanzania; the cease-fire in Northern Ireland; the volcanic eruptions in Montserrat; modernisation in Amazonia; and the BSE scare in Britain.

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