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The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Risk and Relativism in Science for Policy
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    Chapter 2 Risk Perception in Community Context: A Case Study
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    Chapter 3 Chemicals and Community at Love Canal
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    Chapter 4 Challenging Official Risk Assessments via Protest Mobilization: The TMI Case
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    Chapter 5 Protest Movements and the Construction of Risk
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    Chapter 6 The Environmentalist Movement and Grid/Group Analysis: A Modest Critique
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    Chapter 7 Macro-Risks, Micro-Risks, and the Media: The EDB Case
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    Chapter 8 The Political Symbolism of Occupational Health Risks
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    Chapter 9 The Environmental Movement Comes to Town: A Case Study of an Urban Hazardous Waste Controversy
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    Chapter 10 Communicating Information about Workplace Hazards: Effects on Worker Attitudes Toward Risks
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    Chapter 11 Defining Risk within a Business Context: Thomas A. Edison, Elihu Thomson, and the a.c—d.c. Controversy, 1885–1900
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    Chapter 12 Risk and the American Engineering Profession: The ASME Boiler Code and American Industrial Safety Standards
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    Chapter 13 Environmental Risk in Historical Perspective
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    Chapter 14 OSHA’s Carcinogens Standard: Round One on Risk Assessment Models and Assumptions
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    Chapter 15 Cultural Aspects of Risk Assessment in Britain and the United States
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Chapter title
Communicating Information about Workplace Hazards: Effects on Worker Attitudes Toward Risks
Chapter number 10
Book title
The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 1987
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-3395-8_10
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-108021-7, 978-9-40-093395-8
Authors

Michael S. Brown

Editors

Branden B. Johnson, Vincent T. Covello

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 3 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 3 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 33%
Unknown 2 67%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 1 33%
Unknown 2 67%

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