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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Perceiving and Communicating Risk Evidence
- 1 Hidden Hazards
- 2 Acceptable Evidence in a Pluralistic Society
- 3 Beyond Numbers: A Broader Perspective on Risk Perception and Risk Communication
- 4 Guidelines for Communicating Information About Chemical Risks Effectively and Responsibly
- II Uncertain Evidence in Risk Management
- 5 Risk Assessment and Risk Management: An Uneasy Divorce
- 6 Understanding Uncertainties in Medical Evidence: Professional and Public Responsibilities
- 7 Evidential, Ethical, and Policy Disputes: Admissible Evidence in Radioactive Waste Management
- 8 Expert Claims and Social Decisions: Science, Politics, and Responsibility
- III Philosophy and Scientific Evidence
- 9 Knowledge, Values, and Technological Decisions: A Decision Theoretic Approach
- 10 Causing Harm: Epidemiological and Physiological Concepts of Causation
- 11 Reductionist Approaches to Risk
- 12 Sociological Versus Metascientific Views of Risk Assessment
- Contributors
- Index
II Uncertain Evidence in Risk Management
II Uncertain Evidence in Risk Management
- Source:
- Acceptable Evidence
- Author(s):
- Deborah G. Mayo, Rachelle D. Hollander
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780195089295.003.0010
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Perceiving and Communicating Risk Evidence
- 1 Hidden Hazards
- 2 Acceptable Evidence in a Pluralistic Society
- 3 Beyond Numbers: A Broader Perspective on Risk Perception and Risk Communication
- 4 Guidelines for Communicating Information About Chemical Risks Effectively and Responsibly
- II Uncertain Evidence in Risk Management
- 5 Risk Assessment and Risk Management: An Uneasy Divorce
- 6 Understanding Uncertainties in Medical Evidence: Professional and Public Responsibilities
- 7 Evidential, Ethical, and Policy Disputes: Admissible Evidence in Radioactive Waste Management
- 8 Expert Claims and Social Decisions: Science, Politics, and Responsibility
- III Philosophy and Scientific Evidence
- 9 Knowledge, Values, and Technological Decisions: A Decision Theoretic Approach
- 10 Causing Harm: Epidemiological and Physiological Concepts of Causation
- 11 Reductionist Approaches to Risk
- 12 Sociological Versus Metascientific Views of Risk Assessment
- Contributors
- Index
