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Risk : negotiating safety in American society /
"Risk" is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk - threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Risk" is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk - threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In considering this question, the author offers a thought-provoking study of danger and how people have managed it from pre-industrial and industrial America up to the twenty-first century. The author outlines a vernacular risk culture in early America, one based on ordinary experience and common sense. The rise of factories and machinery eventually led to shocking accidents, which, she explains, risk-management experts and the "gospel of safety" sought to counter. Finally, this book examines the simultaneous blossoming of risk-taking as fun and the aggressive regulations that have arisen from the consumer-products-safety movement. -- Publisher's website. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1421408252 9781421408255 |