Risk, media and stigma : understanding public challenges to modern science and technology / edited by James Flynn, Paul Slovic, and Howard Kunreuther.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Flynn, James.
• Slovic, Paul, 1938-
• Kunreuther, Howard.

Series:

• Risk, society, and policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Risk assessment.
• Public opinion.
• Risk perception.
• Mass media--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

xv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Understanding public challenges to modern science and technology

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2001.

Summary:

For all the benefits of modern technology, there is often great public suspicion of, and aversion to, innovations. Amplified by the huge power of the media, public concern about health and ecological risks can grow into what is now recognized as a new and very significant social phenomenon, the stigmatization of new developments. The economic impact and social consequences can be enormous.

Contents:

• Technological stigma / R. Gregory, J. Flynn, P. Slovic
• Stigma and the social amplification of risk: toward a framework of analysis / R. Kasperson, N. Jhaveri, J. Kasperson
• Technological stigma: some perspectives from the study of contagion / P. Rozin
• Crying over spoiled milk: contamination, consumer expectations, and environmental stigma / M. Edelstein
• Risk lived, stigma experienced: reflections on the limits of adaptations / T. Satterfield
• Perceived risk, stigma, and potential economic impacts of a high-level nuclear waste repository in Nevada / P. Slovic ... [et al.]
• Modeling stigma: an empirical analysis of nuclear waste images of Nevada modeling stigma / H. Jenkins-Smith
• Fear and loathing of Las Vegas: will a nuclear waste repository contaminate the imagery of nearby places? / D. Easterling
• Effects of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant on neighboring property values / W. Hunsperger
• Risk, stigma, and property value
• what are people afraid of? / G. Adams, R. Cantor
• Environmental stigma and equity in central cities: the case of South Phoenix / D. Pijawka ... [et al.]
• Impact of external parties on brand-name capital: the 1982 Tylenol poisonings and subsequent cases / M. Mitchell
• Mad cow disease and the stigmatization of British beef / D. Powell
• Blood, risk, and stigma / P. Chan
• Technological danger without stigma: the case of automobile airbags / J. Graham
• Dioxins or chemical stigmata / W. Leiss
• Industry perspective on risk and stigma / R. Long
• From vision to catastrophe: a risk event in search of images / C. Ferreira, Å. Boholm, R. Löfstedt
• Nevada initiative: a risk communication fiasco / J. Flynn, P. Slovic, C. Mertz
• Risk, media, and stigma at Rocky Flats / J. Flynn ... [et al]
• Coping with stigma: challenges and opportunities / H. Kunreuther and P. Slovic
• Defining and identifying "stigma" / V. Walker
• Defining stigma / B. Fischhoff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1853837008

OCLC:

46666066