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Title Risk revisited / edited by Pat Caplan.
Imprint Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
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 List of Figures and Tables 
 Acknowledgements 
 Introduction: Risk Revisited / Pat Caplan1
1The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes / Sophie Day29
2Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania / Janet Bujra59
3'Conflicting Models of Risk': Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis / Alison Shaw85
4Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation / Penny Vera-Sanso108
5A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland / Paul Killworth133
6The Eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk / Jonathan Skinner156
7'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain / Pat Caplan184
8Risk, Ambiguity and the Loss of Control: How People with a Chronic Illness Experience Complex Biomedical Causal Models / Simon Cohn204
9Good Risk, Bad Risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia / Stephen Nugent226
 Contributors249
 Index251
Descrip. viii, : 258 p.
Series Anthropology, culture, and society
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Risk -- Sociological aspects.
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Add Author Caplan, Patricia.
ISBN 0745314686
0745314635
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