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Private Risks and Public Dangers

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Private Risks and Public Dangers

By Stephen Platt, Hilary Thomas, Sue Scott, Gareth Williams

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About the book

Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, and they address a range of private risks and public dangers. Issues covered vary from the response to HIV and AIDS and ¿foetal alcohol syndrome¿ to the nature of accidents. These seemingly diverse social situations within which emerges is that we need a more sociologically informed understanding of the pers...Show more

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ISBN

9780815348696

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Private Risks and Public Dangers

Format

Hardcover

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