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Risk : Negotiating Safety in American Society.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421408255
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: RiskDDC classification:
  • 363.190973
LOC classification:
  • HD4605 .M63 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: RISKS FROM NATURE -- 1 Fire Is Everybody's Problem -- 2 The Uncertainties of Disease -- 3 Doing Something about the Weather -- 4 Animal Risk for a Modern Age -- PART II: INDUSTRIALIZING RISK -- 5 Railroads, or Why Risk in a System Is Different -- 6 The Professionalization of Safety -- 7 The Safety-First Movement -- PART III: RISK IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY -- 8 Negotiating Automobile Risk -- 9 What's a Gun Good For? -- 10 Risk as Entertainment: Amusement Parks -- 11 Consumer Product Safety -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: RISKS FROM NATURE -- 1 Fire Is Everybody's Problem -- 2 The Uncertainties of Disease -- 3 Doing Something about the Weather -- 4 Animal Risk for a Modern Age -- PART II: INDUSTRIALIZING RISK -- 5 Railroads, or Why Risk in a System Is Different -- 6 The Professionalization of Safety -- 7 The Safety-First Movement -- PART III: RISK IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY -- 8 Negotiating Automobile Risk -- 9 What's a Gun Good For? -- 10 Risk as Entertainment: Amusement Parks -- 11 Consumer Product Safety -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.

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