Uncertain Business : : Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge / / Aaron Doyle, Diana Ericson.
We live in an age of increasing doubt about whether our institutions and technologies can provide security against risks, many of which they themselves have created. Uncertain Business is an unprecedented inquiry into insurance industry practices and what they tell us about risks and uncertainties i...
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Doyle, Aaron, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Uncertain Business : Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge / Aaron Doyle, Diana Ericson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2004 1 online resource (335 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Risk, Insurance, and the Limits of Knowledge -- 2 Uncertainties of Life: Embracing Risk, Prudence, and Investment -- 3 Uncertainties of Disability: Spreading Risk, Solidarity, and Welfare -- 4 Uncertainties of Earthquakes: Absorbing Risk, Mitigation, and Infrastructure -- 5 Uncertainties of Terrorism: Pre-Empting Risk, Precaution, and Vigilance -- 6 Uncertain Business -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star We live in an age of increasing doubt about whether our institutions and technologies can provide security against risks, many of which they themselves have created. Uncertain Business is an unprecedented inquiry into insurance industry practices and what they tell us about risks and uncertainties in contemporary society.The core of the book is ethnographic studies in distinct fields of insurance: premature death, disability, earthquake, and terrorism. These studies reveal that uncertainty pervades different fields of insurance, the very industry that is charged with transforming uncertainty into manageable risk. Scientific data on risk are variously absent, inadequate, controversial, contradictory, and ignored. Insurers impose meaning on uncertainty through non-scientific forms of knowledge that are intuitive, emotional, aesthetic, moral, and speculative. Nevertheless, the nature of uncertainty and the response to it varies substantially across the fields studied, showing how contemporary society is characterized by competing risk logics.Insurers' perceptions and decisions about uncertainty ? with potential for windfall profits as well as catastrophic losses ? create crises in insurance availability and provoke new forms of inequality and exclusion. Hence, while the insurance industry is a central bulwark against uncertainty, insurers also play a key role in fostering it. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Risk (Insurance). Technology Sociological aspects. Uncertainty. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Ericson, Diana, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9780802085627 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442682849 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442682849 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442682849.jpg |
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