TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,Miriam E.
AU  - Anderson,Paul D.
AU  - Baert Wiener,Jonathan
AU  - Chang,Howard
AU  - Frazier,Howard S.
AU  - Graham,John D.
AU  - Gray,George M.
AU  - Hatziandreu,Evridiki
AU  - Putnam,Susan W.
AU  - Sunstein,Cass R.
AU  - Walker,Katherine
AU  - Wiener,Jonathan Baert
AU  - Williams,Constance
TI  - Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment 
SN  - 9780674037878
AV  - RA427.3 .R58 1997eb
U1  - 362.1042 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Environmental health
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Health behavior
KW  - Health risk assessment
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Preface --; 1 Confronting Risk Tradeoffs --; 2 Estrogen Therapy for Menopause --; 3 Clozapine Therapy for Schizophrenia --; 4 Licensing the Elderly Driver --; 5 Saving Gasoline and Lives --; 6 Eating Fish --; 7 Seeking Safe Drinking Water --; 8 Recycling Lead --; 9 Regulating Pesticides --; 10 Protecting the Global Environment --; 11 Resolving Risk Tradeoffs --; References --; Contributors --; Author Index --; Subject Index; restricted access
N2  - We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? In Risk versus Risk, John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener, and their colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis marshal an impressive set of case studies which demonstrate that all too often our nation's campaign to reduce risks to our health and the environment is at war with itself
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037878?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674037878
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674037878/original
ER  -