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Release: 2003-04-30
Publisher: Praeger
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0275978699
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality pdf
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Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory chapter by the two co-editors analyzes and contextualizes current scholarly debates on the social, cultural, and political construction of risk. It is followed by an overview on the anthropology of harm reduction that outlines an innovative framework for culturally informed risk analysis. The remaining nine chapters are organized into three sections, The Cultivation of Fear, Perceptions of Health, Safety, and Hazard: Risk Makers and Risk Takers, and Regulating Risk and the Public's Health. The book aims to address a set of questions of theoretical and practical importance to anthropologists, sociologists, public health scholars and professionals, and public policy advocates, among others. These questions include: How do individuals conceptualize and respond to risk? Can risk be a tool of empowerment for individuals and communities who de Download Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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