Risk versus risk : tradeoffs in protecting health and the environment
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Risk versus risk : tradeoffs in protecting health and the environment
Harvard University Press, 1997
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Risk vs. risk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-317) and indexes
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Description
We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? In Risk versus Risk, John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener, and their colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis marshal an impressive set of case studies which demonstrate that all too often our nation's campaign to reduce risks to our health and the environment is at war with itself.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Cass R. Sunstein Preface 1. Confronting Risk Tradeoffs John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Wiener 2. Estrogen Therapy for Menopause Evridiki Hatziandreu, Constance Williams, and John D. Graham 3. Clozapine Therapy for Schizophrenia Miriam E. Adams, Howard Chang, and Howard S. Frazier 4. Licensing the Elderly Driver Constance Williams and John D. Graham 5. Saving Gasoline and Lives John D. Graham 6. Eating Fish Paul D. Anderson and Jonathan Baert Wiener 7. Seeking Safe Drinking Water Susan W. Putnam and Jonathan Baert Wiener 8. Recycling Lead Katherine Walker and Jonathan Baert Wiener 9. Regulating Pesticides George M. Gray and John D. Graham 10. Protecting the Global Environment Jonathan Baert Wiener 11. Resolving Risk Tradeoffs Jonathan Baert Wiener and John D. Graham References Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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