Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Alachlor Controversy - Brossura

Brunk, Conrad G.; Haworth, Lawrence; Lee, Brenda

 
9780889202665: Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Alachlor Controversy

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Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding publications for 1991.

Are risk debates disputes between those who accept the findings of science and those who do not? Between good and bad science? Or is it possible that opposing assessments of risk, by scientific experts as well as ordinary citizens, reflect and are guided by dominant values held by the assessors? The following analysis of one of these debates supports the latter view. In it we suggest what those dominant values are, how they work within a risk assessment, and some implications of reconceiving risk debates as primarily debates about values.

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Book by Brunk Conrad G Haworth Lawrence Lee Brenda

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9780889202009: Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Alachlor Controversy

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ISBN 10:  0889202001 ISBN 13:  9780889202009
Casa editrice: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, 1991
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