| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
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Anthropology, culture, and society |
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Anthropology, culture, and society
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| Subject |
Risk perception -- Cross-cultural studies
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Risk perception
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Risk -- Sociological aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. |
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Risk perception. |
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Risk -- Sociological aspects. |
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Interculturele vergelijking. |
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Risico nemen. |
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Sociologische aspecten. |
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Electronic books |
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Cross-cultural studies. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes 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 |
| Note |
Access restricted to University of Saskatchewan students, faculty, and staff |
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Print version record |
| Other Author |
Caplan, Patricia
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EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
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EBSCO, vendor.
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| ISBN |
0585426279 (electronic book) |
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1849640475 (electronic book) |
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9780585426273 (electronic book) |
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9781849640473 (electronic book) |
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