Health & Fitness Health Care Issues
In the Chamber of Risks
Understanding Risk Controversies
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2001
- Category
- Health Care Issues, Management
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773522466
- Publish Date
- Nov 2001
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773522381
- Publish Date
- Nov 2001
- List Price
- $110.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773569515
- Publish Date
- Nov 2001
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
The essential problem is the failure to recognize that controversies over risks are "normal events" in modern society and as such will be with us for the foreseeable future. Three key propositions define these events: risk management decisions are inherently disputable; public perceptions of risk are legitimate and should be treated as such; the public needs to be intensively involved in the processes of risk evaluation and management. Leiss and his collaborators chronicle these organizational risks in a set of detailed case studies on genetically modified foods, cellular telephones, the notorious fuel additive MMT, pulp mill effluent, nuclear power, toxic substances legislation, tobacco, and the new type of "moral risks" associated with genetics technologies such as cloning. Contributors include Debora L. Van Nijnatten (Sir Wilfred Laurier University), Michael D. Mehta (University of Saskatchewan), Stephen Hill (University of Calgary), Éric Darier (Greenpeace), Greg Paoli (Decisionalysis Risk Consultants, Inc.), and Peter V. Hodson (Queen's University).
About the author
William Leiss is a fellow and past president of the Royal Society of Canada, an officer of the Order of Canada, and professor emeritus at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University. He is the author of several books, including Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication.
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