Searching for Safety

Name: Searching for Safety
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ISBN: 9780912051185

ISBN-10: 0912051183

ISBN-13: 9780912051185

Edition: 2017

Authors: Aaron Wildavsky

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Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being. Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with these modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world. Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer. It also exposes the high risk in backwardness, whether it is a result of policy or inadvertent. The book covers a wide range, including how the human body, as well as…

Book details

Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/4/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Aaron Wildavsky was, until his death in 1993, professor of political science and public policy at the University of California in Berkeley. He was also director of its Survey Research Center.