Risk revisited
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Risk revisited
(Anthropology, culture and society)
Pluto, 2000
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered.
They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety, are far more socially and culturally constructed - and far more contingent - than risk theorists generally admit. Topics covered include prostitutes in London; AIDS in Tanzania; the cease-fire in Northern Ireland; the volcanic eruptions in Montserrat; modernisation in Amazonia; and the BSE scare in Britain.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Risk Revisited by Pat Caplan
2. The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes by Sophie Day
3. Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania by Janet Bujra
4. Conflicting Models of Risk: Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis by Alison Shaw
5. Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation by Penny Vera-Sanso
6. A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland by Paul Killworth
7. The Eruption of Chances Peak: Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk by Jonathan Skinner
8. 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain by Pat Caplan
9. Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models by Simon Cohn
10. Good Risk, Bad risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia by Stephen Nugent
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