Daedalus Fall 1990

by Allan M. Brandt, Theodore J. Lowi, Geoffrey C. Hazard

Fall 1990 issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This issue focuses on the concept of risk and includes Risk as a Forensic Resource, Risks and Rights in the History of American Governments (Lowi), Theories of Risk Perception, American Exceptionalism and the Political Acknowledgement of Risk, The Politics of Risk, Pathological Science in Court, How Well the Media Report Health Risk, Health as a Surrogate for the Environment, The Cigarette, Risk and American Culture, Management of Risk in Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Risks to Health in the United States, The New Legal Structure of Risk Control, The Role of the Legal System in Responses to Public Risk (Hazard), and Justifying Risk. 254 pages plus index.

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