Risk vs. Risk : Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adams, Miriam E. (Contribuidor), Anderson, Paul D. (Contribuidor), Baert Wiener, Jonathan (Contribuidor), Chang, Howard (Contribuidor), Frazier, Howard S. (Contribuidor), Graham, John D. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Gray, George M. (Contribuidor), Hatziandreu, Evridiki (Contribuidor), Putnam, Susan W. (Contribuidor), Sunstein, Cass R. (Contribuidor), Walker, Katherine (Contribuidor), Wiener, Jonathan Baert (Contribuidor, Editor ), Williams, Constance (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Environmental health > Decision making.
Health behavior > Decision making.
Health risk assessment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 Confronting Risk Tradeoffs
  • 2 Estrogen Therapy for Menopause
  • 3 Clozapine Therapy for Schizophrenia
  • 4 Licensing the Elderly Driver
  • 5 Saving Gasoline and Lives
  • 6 Eating Fish
  • 7 Seeking Safe Drinking Water
  • 8 Recycling Lead
  • 9 Regulating Pesticides
  • 10 Protecting the Global Environment
  • 11 Resolving Risk Tradeoffs
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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