Risk versus risk : tradeoffs in protecting health and the environment / edited John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Wiener.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graham, John D. (John David), 1956-

Wiener, Jonathan Baert, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health risk assessment.

Health behavior--Decision making.

Health behavior.

Environmental health--Decision making.

Environmental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Risk vs. risk

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-317) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780674037878

0674037871

OCLC:

923110355