Risk Revisited -

Risk Revisited

Pat Caplan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2000
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-1468-6 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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A range of distinguished anthropologists and sociologists re-examine the concept of risk in contemporary societies.
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.

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).

1. Introduction: Risk Revisited by Pat Caplan


2. The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes by Sophie Day


3. Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania by Janet Bujra


4. Conflicting Models of Risk: Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis by Alison Shaw


5. Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation by Penny Vera-Sanso


6. A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland by Paul Killworth


7. The Eruption of Chances Peak: Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk by Jonathan Skinner


8. 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain by Pat Caplan


9. Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models by Simon Cohn


10. Good Risk, Bad risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia by Stephen Nugent


Contributors


Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.2.2000
Reihe/Serie Anthropology, Culture and Society
Zusatzinfo 2 b&w figures, 2 b&w photographs
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 215 mm
Gewicht 493 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Medizinrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-7453-1468-6 / 0745314686
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-1468-6 / 9780745314686
Zustand Neuware
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