Hazards, risks, and enterprise: approaches to science, law and social policy.

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Short, James F

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Subject: A review of four books: 1/ Aaron Wildavsky: Searching for safety; 2/ Mary Douglas: Risk acceptability according to the social sciences; 3/ Lee Clarke: Acceptable risk? Making decision on a toxic environment; 4/ Sheila Jasanoff: Risk managment and political culture; and 5/ David O'Brien: What process is due? Courts and science-policy disputes.

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Reprinted from Law and Society, Vol. 24., No. 1., 1990, pp179-198

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A review of four books: 1/ Aaron Wildavsky: Searching for safety; 2/ Mary Douglas: Risk acceptability according to the social sciences; 3/ Lee Clarke: Acceptable risk? Making decision on a toxic environment; 4/ Sheila Jasanoff: Risk managment and political culture; and 5/ David O'Brien: What process is due? Courts and science-policy disputes.

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