Culture of fear : risk-taking and the morality of low expectation
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Culture of fear : risk-taking and the morality of low expectation
Cassell, 1997
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- : pbk
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内容説明・目次
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: hard ISBN 9780304337507
内容説明
Safety has become one of the fundamental preoccupations of the 1990s. In a world obsessed with abuse, stranger danger, disease and environmental damage, people are constantly told that they are at risk, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection. An in-depth consideration of the crime, health and safety scares which have come to dominate people's lives, this text argues that the current preoccupation with safety and survival reflects an outlook of low expectation. The book critically examines the roots and the consequences of contemporary risk consciousness, favouring the view that humans are capable of confronting problems and taking risks.
目次
- Part 1 Environmentally-mediated intellectual decline
- terminus brain
- why the concern?. Part 2 The bodily environment
- the mobile environment of the brain - medical science
- protective science - the long term. part 3 The social environment
- bounded threats - home and work
- unbounded threats - pollution and disaster
- pervasive threats - poverty, nutrition and health
- the cure?. Part 4 The ecological environment
- the brain in the ecosystem
- the intellect in the ecosystem. Part 5 The conceptual environment
- law and regulation
- the science-law mismatch
- a new ethical consensus
- the challenges to human intelligence. Appendix: the ERICE Statement.
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: pbk ISBN 9780304337514
内容説明
Safety has become one of the fundamental preoccupations of the 1990s. In a world obsessed with abuse, stranger danger, disease and environmental damage, people are constantly told that they are at risk, and urged to take greater precautions and seek more protection. An in-depth consideration of the crime, health and safety scares which have come to dominate people's lives, this text argues that the current preoccupation with safety and survival reflects an outlook of low expectation. The book critically examines the roots and the consequences of contemporary risk consciousness, favouring the view that humans are capable of confronting problems and taking risks.
目次
- Part 1 Environmentally-mediated intellectual decline
- terminus brain
- why the concern?. Part 2 The bodily environment
- the mobile environment of the brain - medical science
- protective science - the long term. part 3 The social environment
- bounded threats - home and work
- unbounded threats - pollution and disaster
- pervasive threats - poverty, nutrition and health
- the cure?. Part 4 The ecological environment
- the brain in the ecosystem
- the intellect in the ecosystem. Part 5 The conceptual environment
- law and regulation
- the science-law mismatch
- a new ethical consensus
- the challenges to human intelligence. Appendix: the ERICE Statement.
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