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Hazards : Technology and Fairness.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Hazards: Technology and Fairness""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION: EMERGING ISSUES IN HAZARD MANAGEMENT""; ""REFERENCE""; ""PART 1 UNCERTAINTY""; ""Science and Its Limits: The Regulator's Dilemma""; ""SCIENCE AND RARE EVENTS""; """"Scientific"" Approaches to Rare Events""; ""Low-Level Exposure""; ""Natural Carcinogens""; ""Ambiguous Carcinogens""; ""How Science Reacts to Intrinsic Uncertainty""; ""THE ATTACK ON SCIENCE FROM THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE""; ""FINESSING UNCERTAINTY""; ""Technological Fix""; ""The De Minimis Principle""
- ""CONCLUSIONS""""REFERENCES""; ""Causality of a Given Cancer After Known Radiation Exposure""; ""ACCIDENTAL HARM IN POPULATIONS OF EXPOSED PERSONS""; ""QUANTAL RESPONSE IN A POPULATION OF HARMED PERSONS""; ""RADIOTHERAHY OR ACCIDENTAL HIGH-LEVEL RADIATION EXPOSURE""; ""LOW-LEVEL EXPOSURE OF NORMAL POPULATIONS""; ""RADIOBIOLOGICAL RESPONSE FUNCTIONS""; ""PROBABILITY OF CAUSATION IN CANCER CASES""; ""NOTES""; ""References""; ""Dealing With Uncertainty About Risk in Risk Management""; ""RISK VERSUS UNCERTAINTY""; ""Risk Assessment Policy""; ""Is Conservatism Protective?""
- ""The Social Costs of Error""""Resource Constraints and Risk Management""; ""Risk Transfers""; ""Do Standard Setters Compensate for Conservative Risk Analysis?""; ""CONSERVATISM IN RISK ASSESSMENT: COMMENTS""; ""DE MINIMIS RISK""; ""De Minimis Risk and Conflicting Social Objectives""; ""Individual Versus Societal Definition of De Minimis Risk""; ""Multiple Sources of Risk""; ""Applying the De Minimis Concept""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""Scientists, Engineers, and the Burdens of Occupational Exposure: The Case of the Lead Standard""; ""BACKGROUND OF THE OSHA LEAD STANDARD""
- ""HEARINGS ON THE OSHA STANDARD: SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND THE CLASH OF INTERESTS""""THE FINAL LEAD STANDARD""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""PART 2 EQUITY AND COMPENSATION""; ""Hypersusceptibility to Occupational Hazards""; ""HYPERSUSCEPTIBLE GROUPS""; ""SCREENING AND MONITORING""; ""FAIRNESS""; ""References""; ""The Bhopalization of American Tort Law""; ""TORT LAW, OLD AND NEW""; ""Bipolarity""; ""Timeliness""; ""The World in the Oyster""; ""The Driving Force""; ""CAN THE LEGAL SYSTEM COPE?""; ""Regressive Incentives""; ""Inefficient Compensation""; ""Kindling the Flames""
- ""The Writing on the Wall""""THE AGENCIES AND THE COURTS""; ""Institutional Competence""; ""Deferring to the Experts""; ""Compensating Victims""; ""PUBLIC RISKS AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY""; ""NOTES""; ""References""; ""Hazards Equity: A Perspective on the Compensation System""; ""THE PRINCIPLE OF FORESEEABILITY""; ""Mental Suffering Cases""; ""Fire and Wind Cases""; ""Product Liability Cases""; ""The CERCLA Statute and Absolute Liability""; ""THE PRINCIPLE OF JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY WITHOUT CONTRIBUTION""; ""MODIFYING THE APPLICATION OF COMMON LAW PRINCIPLES""; ""New Determinants of Duty""