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Searching for Safety

Paperback • 1988 • English • 1. edition

Searching for Safety

By Aaron B. Wildavsky

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About the book

Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being. Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with these modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world. Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why ri...Show more

Social and ethical issues
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Public health and preventive medicine

Book details

ISBN

9780912051185

Publisher

Transaction Books

Published year

1988

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Searching for Safety

Format

Paperback

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