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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451642703321

Titolo

Risk, culture, and health inequality [[electronic resource] ] : shifting perceptions of danger and blame / / edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks ; foreword by Dorothy Nelkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, CT, : Praeger, c2003

ISBN

1-282-42726-1

9786612427268

0-313-03920-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HarthornBarbara Herr <1951->

OaksLaury <1967->

Disciplina

362.1/042

Soggetti

Health risk assessment

Equality - Health aspects

Public health - Social aspects

Applied anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Harthorn_00_FM; Harthorn_01; Harthorn_02; Harthorn_03; Harthorn_04; Harthorn_05; Harthorn_06; Harthorn_07; Harthorn_08; Harthorn_09; Harthorn_10; Harthorn_11_idx; Harthorn_12_About

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the way risk, as it is socially and culturally constructed, both produces and makes more visible health inequalities. In particular, the chapters ask how individual and collective social actors assess and define health risk in public, biomedical, economic, and political arenas.