AIDS and risk
AIDS and stigma
BSE scandal
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consanguineous marriage
deregulation
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genetic risk
Montserrat volcano
prostitution and risk
public health and safety
risk assessment
risk taking
Ulrich Beck
Product details
- ISBN 9780745314631
- Weight: 409g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered.
They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety, are far more socially and culturally constructed - and far more contingent - than risk theorists generally admit. Topics covered include prostitutes in London; AIDS in Tanzania; the cease-fire in Northern Ireland; the volcanic eruptions in Montserrat; modernisation in Amazonia; and the BSE scare in Britain.
They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety, are far more socially and culturally constructed - and far more contingent - than risk theorists generally admit. Topics covered include prostitutes in London; AIDS in Tanzania; the cease-fire in Northern Ireland; the volcanic eruptions in Montserrat; modernisation in Amazonia; and the BSE scare in Britain.
Pat Caplan is one of the founders of the Anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, UoL and was formerly the Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UoL. She is the author of Risk Revisited (Pluto Press, 2000) and The Ethics of Anthropology (Routledge, 2003).
