Risk revisited / edited by Pat Caplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caplan, Patricia.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Risk--Sociological aspects.

Risk.

Risk perception.

Risk perception--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 258 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A range of distinguished anthropologists and sociologists re-examine the concept of risk in contemporary societies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Risk Revisited

RISK:THE DEBATES

THE COLLECTION

THEMES ARISING

THE REFLEXIVITY OF MODERNITY:ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND: THE PRAED STREET PROJECT

GOVERNING RISK: HIV, THE PROSTITUTE AND THE STATESMAN

MEDICALISATION AND RISK

COMPARISON: RISK AS A MEASURE OF ALL THINGS

A SOCIAL MOVEMENT

INSIDE, NOT OUTSIDE THE STATE

RISK AND REFLEXIVITY

CONCLUSION

NOTES

2. Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania

BECK AND GIDDENS: RELEVANT PARADIGMS?

AN INAPPROPRIATE FRAMEWORK?

RISK AND TRUST IN THE AIDS LITERATURE

DEFINING RISK AND TRUST IN THE TANZANIAN CONTEXT

AIDS IN LUSHOTO

EXPLAINING AIDS IN LUSHOTO

VARIETY OF MALE RESPONSES

WOMEN 'S RESPONSES

CONDOMS AND SAFER/UNSAFE SEX

REFERENCES

3. 'Conflicting Models of Risk': Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis

'THIS IS MY QISMAT (FATE)'

CLINICAL VIEWS OF GENETIC RISK

GENETIC RISK AND BRITISH PAKISTANIS

THE CLINICAL VIEW IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

CLINICAL SOLUTIONS

PAKISTANI ATTITUDES TO RISK IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

ISLAM, FATALISM AND THE ROLE OF SAINTS

FAMILY HISTORIES AND HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS

4. Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation

THE POLITICS OF RISK REPRESENTATION

NUCLEAR RISK - A DISCUSSION

RISK AND BLAME

GENDER AND RISK IN INDIA

WOMEN AND RISK IN THE LOW-INCOME SETTLEMENTS OF CHENNAI

NEGOTIATING RISK

JUGGLING RISKS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

5. A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland

PRELUDE

TRAINING AND THREATS

CONCEPTUALISING RISK

INTERNALISING THE ENEMY.

EXTERNALISING THE CONFLICT

6. The Eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk

RISK AND NARRATIVE AS RESEARCH TOPICS

LIVING ON THE VOLCANO OF MONTSERRAT

NARRATIVE, RADIO AND THE CONTAINMENT OF RISK ON MONTSERRAT

7. 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain

BRITISH BEEF AND ITS MEANINGS

FOOD AND FOOD SCARES

THE CONCEPTS OF HEALTHY EATING RESEARCH PROJECTS

THE SECOND BSE SCARE

RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE

CONCLUSION: RISK KNOWLEDGE,TRUST AND LOCATION

8. Risk, Ambiguity and the Loss of Control: How People with a Chronic Illness Experience Complex Biomedical Causal Models

RISK AND CAUSALITY

TYPE II DIABETES AND PATIENTS ' PERCEPTIONS OF RISK

RISK AND CONTROL

9. Good Risk, Bad Risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia

BECK 'S RISK ANALYSIS

ECOLOGICAL PANACEA OR PANEGYRIC?

WORKING TOWARDS RISK IN AMAZONIA

AMAZONIA AND THE DOCTRINE OF TROPICAL NASTINESS

INADVERTENT RISK

OPERATIONALISING RISK IN AMAZONIA

RISK MANAGERS

Contributors

Index

Africa

and modernity, 15

gender inequality, 63

gender inequality, 69-70

sexuality in, 61

sexuality in, 67

spread of AIDS in, 59

spread of AIDS in, 61

spread of AIDS in, 62-3

age, factor in risk perception

189

193

agency

17

23

142

228

and internalisation of risk, 134

and internalisation of risk, 144

and internalisation of risk, 151

and risk, 3-4

AIDS/HIV

and migration, 61

and migration, 66-7

and migration, 71-2

and regulation, 35-6

and regulation, 60

and regulation, 61.

and regulation, 79n

as new risk, 15

as new risk, 60

as new risk, 80-1nn

associated with prostitutes 31

associated with prostitutes 44-5

cultural responses to, 12

epidemiological measurement of risk, 37-8

epidemiological measurement of risk, 64

in Africa, 59

in Africa, 61

in Africa, 62-3

in Africa, 79-80nn

in Tanzania, 59

in Tanzania, 66-7

in Tanzania, 68-73

male responses in Tanzania, 70-2

moral explanations in Tanzania, 68-70

sociological perspective, 64-5

women's responses in Tanzania, 72-3

Amazonia

eco-politics, 245-7

environmental risk, 227

environmental risk, 240-1

environmental risk, 245

nastiness, 237-8

nature of risks in, 20

nature of risks in, 226

nature of risks in, 234

real and mythic risk in, 227

real and mythic risk in, 240

anthropology

fieldwork in hazardous environments, 159

view of risk, 7-14

view of risk, 24-5

Asia, financial markets 230

Beck, Ulrich, Risk Society

2-5

108-10

160-1

235-7

and AIDS issue, 60-1

and environmental risk, 141

compared with Giddens, 6-7

compared with Giddens, 24-5

global nature of risk society, 184

global nature of risk society, 185

global nature of risk society, 190

risk analysis, 228-32

beef

organic, 188

restoring public confidence, 197-8

bio-diversity 242

biradari kinship networks, Pakistan 95-6

blame

Douglas on, 10

Douglas on, 11-12

India, 120-2

risk and, 112-14

Body Shop International 243-5

British Army in Northern Ireland

as neutral actor, 149-51

as neutral actor, 152

case study, 137-9

conceptualisation of PIRA, 144

conceptualisation of PIRA, 147-9.

conceptualisation of PIRA, 151

Northern Ireland Bureau, 140-1

Northern Ireland Bureau, 142

training, 133-4

training, 135-40

training, 144-5

view of cease-fire, 139-40

view of cease-fire, 152-3

BSE

first scare, 187-93

Lewisham responses to, 188-90

Lewisham responses to, 192-3

media coverage, 194-7

responses to, 18-19

second scare [CJD link], 193-7

Welsh responses to, 190-3

case study

85-8

and epidemiological risk, 16

and epidemiological risk, 90-1

causality

and notion of predisposition, 213

and notion of predisposition, 214

concepts of, 18-19

concepts of, 218

risk and, 208-11

risk and, 221-2

chronic illness

and concepts of causality, 19

and concepts of causality, 208-11

and concepts of causality, 213-14

Type II diabetes, 211-18

colonialism, and perception of women's status in India 115-16

comparative risk

29

30

39-41

50

complexity, biomedical models of 208-10

condom use

as inducing distrust, 59-60

as inducing distrust, 73-7

by prostitutes 's clients, 43-4

for contraception, 77-8

consciousness determines being

4

185

199

Contagious Diseases Acts [1860s-70s] 34-5

contraception

77-8

81-2n

control

18

19

25

and individual freedom, 218-19

narrative as, 18

narrative as, 163-4

of chronic illness, 211-12

social, 35-6

training to enhance, 145-7

Creuzfeldt Jakob 's Disease [new variant] 193

cultural theory [Douglas]

11-12

24

94-5

161

205.

culture, and risk perception

8-9

94-7

99-101

103-4

deforestation, Amazonia 241

diabetes mellitus [Type II]

212-13

and future risk, 206-7

and future risk, 214-18

patients ' perceptions of risk, , 211-18

disaster, definitions of 159-60

diseases

of modernity, 60

Douglas, Mary

1-2

7-14

24-5

reviews and criticisms, 12-14

Risk Acceptability..., 10

Risk and Blame , 10-12

Risk and Blame , 162

Risk and Culture [with Wildavsky], 7-10

Risk and Culture [with Wildavsky], 94-5

Risk and Culture [with Wildavsky], 161

social construction of risk, 206

Down 's Syndrome, religious interpretation of 101-2

East Africa, HIV/AIDS among prostitutes 31

eco-politics, in Amazonia 245-7

ecology

232-4

Amazonia and, 239

Amazonia and, 240-1

economics of risk 141

environmental risk

108

109

129-30n

141

as global, 160-1

in Amazonia, 227

in Amazonia, 241

epidemiology

16

and AIDS, 64

and measurement of risk, 33

and measurement of risk, 37-8

and measurement of risk, 48

and measurement of risk, 64

and measurement of risk, 92

and models of complexity, 208-10

scepticism of, 48-9

experts

and lay knowledge/understanding, 205

and lay knowledge/understanding, 220

Montserrat, 163-4

Montserrat, 170-1

externalisation of risk

17-18

view of role of British Army, 149-51

view of role of British Army, 152

fatalism

98

170

216

food scares 186-7

Gaia

229

232

gender inequality

and contraception, 81-2n

and spread of AIDS in Africa, 63.

and spread of AIDS in Africa, 69-70.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640473

1849640475

9780585426273

0585426279

OCLC:

50811545