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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.
LIBRA RA427 .R52 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health risk assessment.
- Equality--Health aspects.
- Equality.
- Public health--Social aspects.
- Public health.
- Applied anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0275978699
- OCLC:
- 50417348
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