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Acceptable Risks : Politics, Policy, and Risky Technologies.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472023264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Acceptable RisksDDC classification:
  • 353.9/9
LOC classification:
  • T174
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Understanding Agency Failure -- Chapter 2. Reliable Decision Making and the Influence of Political Incentives -- Chapter 3. Shifting Political Incentives at NASA and the FDA -- Chapter 4. Organizational Structure and the Design of Reliable Systems -- Chapter 5. Subordinate Expertise and Reliable Organizations -- Chapter 6. Systems versus Components: Seeking Greater Reliability at NASA and the FDA -- Chapter 7. Acceptable Risks -- References -- Index.
Summary: The control of the use of beneficial but potentially dangerous technologies by the FDA and NASA.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Understanding Agency Failure -- Chapter 2. Reliable Decision Making and the Influence of Political Incentives -- Chapter 3. Shifting Political Incentives at NASA and the FDA -- Chapter 4. Organizational Structure and the Design of Reliable Systems -- Chapter 5. Subordinate Expertise and Reliable Organizations -- Chapter 6. Systems versus Components: Seeking Greater Reliability at NASA and the FDA -- Chapter 7. Acceptable Risks -- References -- Index.

The control of the use of beneficial but potentially dangerous technologies by the FDA and NASA.

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