Risk : negotiating safety in American society / / Arwen P. Mohun.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 329 p. :; ill. |
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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.