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Acceptable evidence : science and values in risk management /
Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Colección: | Environmental ethics and science policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Hidden hazards / Roger E. Kasperson and Jeanne X. Kasperson
- Acceptable evidence in a pluralistic society / Sheila Jasanoff
- Beyond numbers : a broader perspective on risk perception and risk communication / Paul Slovic
- Guidelines for communicating information about chemical risks effectively and responsibly / Vincent T. Covello, Peter M. Sandman, and Paul Slovic
- Risk assessment and risk management : an uneasy divorce / Ellen K. Silbergeld
- Understanding uncertainties in medical evidence : professional and public responsibilities / Valerie Miké
- Evidential, ethical, and policy disputes : admissible evidence in radioactive waste management / E. William Colglazier
- Expert claims and social decisions : science, politics, and responsibility / Rachelle D. Hollander
- Knowledge, values, and technological decisions : a decision theoretic approach / Ronald N. Giere.
- Causing harm : epidemiological and physiological concepts of causation / Kenneth F. Schaffner
- Reductionist approaches to risk / Kristin Shrader-Frechette
- Sociological versus metascientific views of risk assessment / Deborah G. Mayo.