Worst cases : terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / Lee Clarke.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.Description: xi, 213 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0226108597 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 303.48/5 22
- HV551.2 .C533 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.
1. Worst cases : be afraid, be very afraid -- 2. The sky could be falling : globally relevant disasters and the perils of probabilism -- 3. What's the worst that can happen? -- 4. Power, politics, and panic in worst cases -- 5. Silver linings : the good from the worst -- 6. Living and dying in worst case worlds.
"In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane: very real threats like a killer flu or an American Hiroshima have become so common that they have lost their ability to shock us. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, are often completely sensible: when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings it will take worst cases as seriously as it should."--BOOK JACKET.
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