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Risk in perspective : insight and humor in the age of risk management / Kimberly M. Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Kimberly M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health behavior--Humor.
- Health behavior.
- Medical care--Risk management--Humor.
- Medical care.
- Risk management--Humor.
- Risk management.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--1971---Caricatures and cartoons.
- United States.
- Wit and Humor as Topic.
- Risk Management.
- Medical Subjects:
- Wit and Humor as Topic.
- Risk Management.
- Genre:
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Humor.
- Cartoons (Humor)
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newton Centre, MA : AORM, 2004.
- Summary:
- Consists chiefly of quotations and cartoons on medical risk-taking from the patient's, doctor's, insurer's, and lawyer's points of view.
- Contents:
- Science and technology
- It's all in the numbers
- Variability
- Uncertainty
- Errors
- Choices and risk trade-offs
- Effectiveness, benefits, and costs
- Values and preferences
- Risk in the media
- Risks meet law and policy
- Health care in the U.S.
- Signs of the times.
- Notes:
- LC copy signed by the author.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thompson, Kimberly M. Risk in perspective.
- ISBN:
- 9780972707817
- 0972707816
- 0972707824
- 9780972707824
- OCLC:
- 57344379
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