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" Risk, culture, and health inequality : "
edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks ; foreword by Dorothy Nelkin.
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875811
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Risk, culture, and health inequality : : shifting perceptions of danger and blame /\ edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks ; foreword by Dorothy Nelkin.
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Westport, CT :: Praeger,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)
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0275978699
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: 0313039208
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: 9780313039201
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0275978699
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword: The Social Meanings of Risk / Dorothy Nelkin -- Introduction: Health and the Social and Cultural Construction of Risk / Laury Oaks and Barbara Herr Harthorn -- Harm Reduction: A Core Concern for Medical Anthropology / Mark Nichter -- Autonomy, Danger, and Choice: The Moral Imperative of an "At Risk" Pregnancy for a Group of Low-Income Latinas in Texas / Linda M. Hunt and Katherine B. de Voogd -- The Risks of Test-Tube Baby Making in Egypt / Marcia C. Inhorn -- The Politics of Health Risk Warnings: Social Movements and Controversy over the Link between Abortion and Breast Cancer / Laury Oaks -- Exporting Risk: The Cultural Politics of Regulating Traditional Medicine in Northeast Brazil / Jessica Jerome -- Risk, Remediation, and the Stigma of a Technological Accident in an African American Community / Theresa A. Satterfield -- Safe Exposure? Perceptions of Health Risks from Agricultural Chemicals among California Farmworkers / Barbara Herr Harthorn -- Governing Migrants' Sexual Behavior: Work, HIV/AIDS, and Condom Use Campaigns in Southeast Asia / Peter Chua -- Genetically Modified Foods: Shared Risk and Global Action / Francesca Bray -- Risk, Ethics, and the Public Space: The Impact of BSE and Foot-and-Mouth Disease on Public Thinking / Jo Murphy-Lawless.
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Explores the way risk, as it is socially and culturally constructed, both produces and makes more visible health inequalities. In particular, the chapters ask how individual and collective social actors assess and define health risk in public, biomedical, economic, and political arenas.
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Applied anthropology.
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Equality-- Health aspects.
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Health risk assessment.
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Public health-- Social aspects.
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Public Health.
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Risk Factors.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Applied anthropology.
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Equality-- Health aspects.
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Health risk assessment.
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MEDICAL-- Health Risk Assessment.
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Public health-- Social aspects.
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Public Health.
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Risk Factors.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1/042
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RA427.R52 2003eb
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2003 H-148
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WA 30R5946 2003
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Harthorn, Barbara Herr,1951-
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Oaks, Laury,1967-
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