Risk negotiating safety in American society /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2013.
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Fire is everybody's business
- The uncertainties of disease
- Doing something about the weather
- Animal risk for a modern age
- Railroads, or why risk in a system is different
- The professionalization of safety
- The safety first movement
- Negotiating animal risk
- What's a gun good for?
- Risk as entertainment : amusement parks
- Consumer product safety.