Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management - Couverture rigide

Mayo, Deborah G.

 
9780195063721: Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195063724 ISBN 13 : 9780195063721
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focussed on the entry of values in judging risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. This volume instead concentrates on the entry of values in collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk. By focusing on acceptable evidence, this volume avoids two barriers to progress: views that assume that evidence of risk is largely a matter of objective scientific data and therefore uncontroversial, and views that assume that evidence of risk is ineluctably a matter of values and therefore not amenable to reasoned critique. This volume denies both extremes. It argues for a more constructive conclusion: that understanding the interrelations of scientific with value issues enables a critical scrutiny of risk assessments. This volume analyzes environmental and medical controversies, and assumptions underlying views about risk assessment and the scientific and statistical models used in risk management. Contributors include philosophers, policy analysts, and natural and social scientists.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.

Revue de presse

An excellent survey of a number of issues in environmental ethics. (Joel B. Goldsteen, University of Texas at Arlington)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195063724
ISBN 13 
9780195063721
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780195089295: Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management

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ISBN 10 :  0195089294 ISBN 13 :  9780195089295
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1994
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