| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Risk revisited/ edited by Pat Caplan. |
| other author: |
Caplan, Patricia. |
| Published: |
London ;Pluto Press, : 2000., |
| Description: |
viii, 258 p. :ill. ;22 cm. |
| Series: |
Anthropology, culture, and society |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Risk perception - Cross-cultural studies. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=72519An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585426279 (electronic bk.) |