Risk versus risk : tradeoffs in protecting health and the environment /

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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: Graham, John D. (John David), 1956-, Wiener, Jonathan Baert, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Temas:
Health risk assessment.
Health behavior > Decision making.
Environmental health > Decision making.
Health behavior.
Risk assessment.
Decision making.
Health Status Indicators
Health Behavior
Risk Assessment
Decision Making
Risques pour la santé > Évaluation.
Habitudes sanitaires > Prise de décision.
Habitudes sanitaires.
Évaluation du risque.
Prise de décision.
risk assessment.
decision making.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Risk assessment
Health behavior
Decision making
Environmental health > Decision making
Health behavior > Decision making
Health risk assessment
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Confronting risk tradeoffs / John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Wiener
  • Estrogen therapy for menopause / Evridiki Hatziandreu, Constance Williams, and John D. Graham
  • Clozapine therapy for schizophrenia / Miriam E. Adams, Howard Chang, and Howard S. Frazier
  • Licensing the elderly driver / Constance Williams and John D. Graham
  • Saving gasoline and lives / John D. Graham
  • Eating fish / Paul D. Anderson and Jonathan Baert Wiener
  • Seeking safe drinking water / Susan W. Putnam and Jonathan Baert Wiener
  • Recycling lead / Katherine Walker and Jonathan Baert Wiener
  • Regulating pesticides / George M. Gray and John D. Graham
  • Protecting the global environment / Jonathan Baert Wiener
  • Resolving risk tradeoffs / Jonathan Baert Wiener and John D. Graham.

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