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Risk vs. Risk : Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment / ed. by John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674037878
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1042 22
LOC classification:
  • RA427.3 .R58 1997eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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