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BL
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1023285
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b777655
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| Title & Author
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Risk revisited /\ edited by Pat Caplan.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;Sterling, Va. :: Pluto Press,, 2000.
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| Series Statement
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Anthropology, culture, and society
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1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0585426279
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: 0745314635
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: 1849640475
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: 9780585426273
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: 9780745314631
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: 9781849640473
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0745314686
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9780745314686
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Risk revisited / Pat Caplan -- The politics of risk among London prostitutes / Sophie Day -- Risk and trust: unsafe sex, gender and AIDS in Tanzania / Janet Bujra -- 'Conflicting models of risk': clinical genetics and British Pakistanis / Alison Shaw -- Risk-talk: the politics of risk and its representation / Penny Vera-Sanso -- A risky cease-fire: British infantry soldiers and Northern Ireland / Paul Killworth -- The eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the narrative containment of risk / Jonathan Skinner -- 'Eating British beef with confidence': a consideration of consumers' responses to BSE in Britain / Pat Caplan -- Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with a chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models / Simon Cohn -- Good risk, bad risk: reflexive modernisation and Amazonia / Stephen Nugent.
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| Abstract
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Annotation
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Risk perception, Cross-cultural studies.
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Risk perception.
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Risk-- Sociological aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Social Psychology.
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Risk perception.
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Risk-- Sociological aspects.
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Interculturele vergelijking.
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Risico nemen.
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Sociologische aspecten.
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| Dewey Classification
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302/.12
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| LC Classification
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HM1101.R59 2000eb
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| Added Entry
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Caplan, Patricia.
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