http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
viii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Introduction: Risk revisited / Pat Caplan -- The politics of risk among London prostitutes / Sophie Day -- Risk and trust: unsafe sex, gender and AIDS in Tanzania / Janet Bujra -- 'Conflicting models of risk': clinical genetics and British Pakistanis / Alison Shaw -- Risk-talk: the politics of risk and its representation / Penny Vera-Sanso -- A risky cease-fire: British infantry soldiers and Northern Ireland / Paul Killworth -- The eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the narrative containment of risk / Jonathan Skinner -- 'Eating British beef with confidence': a consideration of consumers' responses to BSE in Britain / Pat Caplan -- Risk, ambiguity and the loss of control: how people with a chronic illness experience complex biomedical causal models / Simon Cohn -- Good risk, bad risk: reflexive modernisation and Amazonia / Stephen Nugent.
Includes bibliographical references and index.