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Searching for Safety

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Searching for Safety

By Aaron Wildavsky

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About the book

Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with 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 risk taking makes life safer and exposes the high risk of avoiding change. The book covers a wide range, including how the human body, as well as plants, animals, and insects, cope with danger. Wildavsky asks whether piling on safety measures actually improves sa...Show more

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ISBN

9781138532335

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Searching for Safety

Format

Hardcover

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