On the social and political acceptability of risk.

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Nelkin, Dorothy

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Subject: An outline of the treatment of risk that emphasizes the social and political issues. The response deals primarily with technologically induced risk, the acceptability of risk - whether from human-devised technologies, or from violent forces of nature like hurricanes or volcanoes, as these are of social and political concern.

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Reprinted from Impact of Science on Society, No. 2., 1983, pp225-231

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An outline of the treatment of risk that emphasizes the social and political issues. The response deals primarily with technologically induced risk, the acceptability of risk - whether from human-devised technologies, or from violent forces of nature like hurricanes or volcanoes, as these are of social and political concern.

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