Risk versus risk : tradeoffs in protecting health and the environment /
We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1997
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Edition: | 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Confronting risk tradeoffs / John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Wiener
- Estrogen therapy for menopause / Evridiki Hatziandreu, Constance Williams, and John D. Graham
- Clozapine therapy for schizophrenia / Miriam E. Adams, Howard Chang, and Howard S. Frazier
- Licensing the elderly driver / Constance Williams and John D. Graham
- Saving gasoline and lives / John D. Graham
- Eating fish / Paul D. Anderson and Jonathan Baert Wiener
- Seeking safe drinking water / Susan W. Putnam and Jonathan Baert Wiener
- Recycling lead / Katherine Walker and Jonathan Baert Wiener
- Regulating pesticides / George M. Gray and John D. Graham
- Protecting the global environment / Jonathan Baert Wiener
- Resolving risk tradeoffs / Jonathan Baert Wiener and John D. Graham.