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• Title:Risk revisited / edited by Pat Caplan.
  
• ISBN:0745314686
  
• Published/Created:London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.
  
• Physical Description:viii, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
  

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  • Call Number: HM1101 R59X 2000 (LC)
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Format:Book
• Series:Anthropology, culture, and society
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• 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.
  
• Subjects:Risk--Sociological aspects.
  Risk perception.
  Risk perception--Cross-cultural studies.
  
• Also listed under:Caplan, Patricia.