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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821396603321

Titolo

Risk revisited / / edited by Pat Caplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000

ISBN

1-84964-047-5

0-585-42627-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 258 p. : ill

Collana

Anthropology, culture, and society

Altri autori (Persone)

CaplanPatricia

Disciplina

302/.12

Soggetti

Risk - Sociological aspects

Risk perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Risk Revisited -- RISK:THE DEBATES -- THE COLLECTION -- THEMES ARISING -- THE REFLEXIVITY OF MODERNITY:ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 1. The Politics of Risk among London Prostitutes -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND: THE PRAED STREET PROJECT -- GOVERNING RISK: HIV, THE PROSTITUTE AND THE STATESMAN -- MEDICALISATION AND RISK -- COMPARISON: RISK AS A MEASURE OF ALL THINGS -- A SOCIAL MOVEMENT -- INSIDE, NOT OUTSIDE THE STATE -- RISK AND REFLEXIVITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 2. Risk and Trust: Unsafe Sex, Gender and AIDS in Tanzania -- BECK AND GIDDENS: RELEVANT PARADIGMS? -- AN INAPPROPRIATE FRAMEWORK? -- RISK AND TRUST IN THE AIDS LITERATURE -- DEFINING RISK AND TRUST IN THE TANZANIAN CONTEXT -- AIDS IN LUSHOTO -- EXPLAINING AIDS IN LUSHOTO -- VARIETY OF MALE RESPONSES -- WOMEN 'S RESPONSES -- CONDOMS AND SAFER/UNSAFE SEX -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3. 'Conflicting Models of Risk': Clinical Genetics and British Pakistanis -- INTRODUCTION -- 'THIS IS MY QISMAT (FATE)' -- CLINICAL VIEWS OF GENETIC RISK -- GENETIC RISK AND BRITISH PAKISTANIS -- THE CLINICAL VIEW IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT -- CLINICAL SOLUTIONS -- PAKISTANI ATTITUDES TO RISK IN SOCIAL AND  CULTURAL CONTEXT -- ISLAM, FATALISM AND THE ROLE OF SAINTS -- FAMILY HISTORIES AND HOUSEHOLD DYNAMICS --



CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4. Risk-talk: the Politics of Risk and its Representation -- THE POLITICS OF RISK REPRESENTATION -- NUCLEAR RISK - A DISCUSSION -- RISK AND BLAME -- GENDER AND RISK IN INDIA -- WOMEN AND RISK IN THE LOW-INCOME  SETTLEMENTS OF CHENNAI -- NEGOTIATING RISK -- JUGGLING RISKS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5. A Risky Cease-fire: British Infantry Soldiers and Northern Ireland -- PRELUDE -- INTRODUCTION -- TRAINING AND THREATS -- CONCEPTUALISING RISK -- INTERNALISING THE ENEMY.

EXTERNALISING THE CONFLICT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6. The Eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the Narrative Containment of Risk -- INTRODUCTION -- RISK AND NARRATIVE AS RESEARCH TOPICS -- LIVING ON THE VOLCANO OF MONTSERRAT -- NARRATIVE, RADIO AND THE CONTAINMENT OF  RISK ON MONTSERRAT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7. 'Eating British Beef with Confidence': A Consideration of Consumers' Responses to BSE in Britain -- BRITISH BEEF AND ITS MEANINGS -- FOOD AND FOOD SCARES -- THE CONCEPTS OF HEALTHY EATING RESEARCH PROJECTS -- THE SECOND BSE SCARE -- RESTORING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE -- CONCLUSION: RISK KNOWLEDGE,TRUST AND LOCATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8. Risk, Ambiguity and the Loss of Control: How People with a Chronic Illness Experience Complex Biomedical Causal Models -- INTRODUCTION -- RISK AND CAUSALITY -- TYPE II DIABETES AND PATIENTS ' PERCEPTIONS OF RISK -- RISK AND CONTROL -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9. Good Risk, Bad Risk: Reflexive Modernisation and Amazonia -- BECK 'S RISK ANALYSIS -- ECOLOGICAL PANACEA OR PANEGYRIC? -- WORKING TOWARDS RISK IN AMAZONIA -- AMAZONIA AND THE DOCTRINE OF TROPICAL NASTINESS -- INADVERTENT RISK -- OPERATIONALISING RISK IN AMAZONIA -- RISK MANAGERS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Contributors -- Index -- Africa -- and modernity,  15 -- gender inequality,  63 -- gender inequality,  69-70 -- sexuality in,  61 -- sexuality in,  67 -- spread of AIDS in,  59 -- spread of AIDS in,  61 -- spread of AIDS in,  62-3 -- age, factor in risk perception -- 189 -- 193 -- agency -- 17 -- 23 -- 142 -- 228 -- and internalisation of risk,  134 -- and internalisation of risk,  144 -- and internalisation of risk,  151 -- and risk,  3-4 -- AIDS/HIV -- and migration,  61 -- and migration,  66-7 -- and migration,  71-2 -- and regulation,  35-6 -- and regulation,  60 -- and regulation,  61.

and regulation,  79n -- as new risk,  15 -- as new risk,  60 -- as new risk,  80-1nn -- associated with prostitutes  31 -- associated with prostitutes  44-5 -- cultural responses to,  12 -- epidemiological measurement of risk,  37-8 -- epidemiological measurement of risk,  64 -- in Africa,  59 -- in Africa,  61 -- in Africa,  62-3 -- in Africa,  79-80nn -- in Tanzania,  59 -- in Tanzania,  66-7 -- in Tanzania,  68-73 -- male responses in Tanzania,  70-2 -- moral explanations in Tanzania,  68-70 -- sociological perspective,  64-5 -- women's responses in Tanzania,  72-3 -- Amazonia -- eco-politics,  245-7 -- environmental risk,  227 -- environmental risk,  240-1 -- environmental risk,  245 -- nastiness,  237-8 -- nature of risks in,  20 -- nature of risks in,  226 -- nature of risks in,  234 -- real and mythic risk in,  227 -- real and mythic risk in,  227 -- real and mythic risk in,  240 -- real and mythic risk in,  240 -- anthropology -- fieldwork in hazardous environments,  159 -- view of risk,  7-14 -- view of risk,  7-14 -- view of risk,  24-5 -- view of risk,  24-5 -- Asia, financial markets 230 -- Beck, Ulrich, Risk Society -- 2-5 -- 108-10 -- 160-1 -- 235-7 -- and AIDS issue,  60-1 -- and environmental risk,  141 -- compared with Giddens,  6-7 -- compared with Giddens,  24-5 --



global nature of risk society,  184 -- global nature of risk society,  185 -- global nature of risk society,  190 -- risk analysis,  228-32 -- beef -- organic,  188 -- restoring public confidence,  197-8 -- bio-diversity 242 -- biradari kinship networks, Pakistan 95-6 -- blame -- Douglas on,  10 -- Douglas on,  11-12 -- India,  120-2 -- risk and,  112-14 -- Body Shop International 243-5 -- British Army in Northern Ireland -- as neutral actor,  149-51 -- as neutral actor,  152 -- case study,  137-9 -- conceptualisation of PIRA,  144 -- conceptualisation of PIRA,  147-9.

conceptualisation of PIRA,  151 -- Northern Ireland Bureau,  140-1 -- Northern Ireland Bureau,  142 -- training,  133-4 -- training,  135-40 -- training,  144-5 -- view of cease-fire,  139-40 -- view of cease-fire,  139-40 -- view of cease-fire,  152-3 -- view of cease-fire,  152-3 -- BSE -- first scare,  187-93 -- Lewisham responses to,  188-90 -- Lewisham responses to,  192-3 -- media coverage,  194-7 -- responses to,  18-19 -- restoring public confidence,  197-8 -- second scare [CJD link],  193-7 -- Welsh responses to,  190-3 -- case study -- 85-8 -- and epidemiological risk,  16 -- and epidemiological risk,  16 -- and epidemiological risk,  90-1 -- and epidemiological risk,  90-1 -- causality -- and notion of predisposition,  213 -- and notion of predisposition,  214 -- concepts of,  18-19 -- concepts of,  218 -- risk and,  208-11 -- risk and,  208-11 -- risk and,  221-2 -- risk and,  221-2 -- chronic illness -- and concepts of causality,  19 -- and concepts of causality,  208-11 -- and concepts of causality,  213-14 -- Type II diabetes,  211-18 -- colonialism, and perception of women's status in India 115-16 -- comparative risk -- 29 -- 30 -- 39-41 -- 50 -- complexity, biomedical models of 208-10 -- condom use -- as inducing distrust,  59-60 -- as inducing distrust,  59-60 -- as inducing distrust,  73-7 -- as inducing distrust,  73-7 -- by prostitutes 's clients,  43-4 -- for contraception,  77-8 -- consciousness determines being -- 4 -- 185 -- 199 -- Contagious Diseases Acts [1860s-70s] 34-5 -- contraception -- 77-8 -- 81-2n -- control -- 18 -- 19 -- 25 -- and individual freedom,  218-19 -- narrative as,  18 -- narrative as,  163-4 -- of chronic illness,  211-12 -- social,  35-6 -- training to enhance,  145-7 -- Creuzfeldt Jakob 's Disease [new variant] 193 -- cultural theory [Douglas] -- 11-12 -- 24 -- 94-5 -- 161 -- 205.

culture, and risk perception -- 8-9 -- 94-7 -- 99-101 -- 103-4 -- deforestation, Amazonia 241 -- diabetes mellitus [Type II] -- 212-13 -- and future risk,  206-7 -- and future risk,  214-18 -- patients ' perceptions of risk, ,  211-18 -- disaster, definitions of 159-60 -- diseases -- and notion of predisposition,  213 -- and notion of predisposition,  214 -- of modernity,  60 -- Douglas, Mary -- 1-2 -- 7-14 -- 24-5 -- reviews and criticisms,  12-14 -- Risk Acceptability...,  10 -- Risk and Blame ,  10-12 -- Risk and Blame ,  162 -- Risk and Culture [with Wildavsky],  7-10 -- Risk and Culture [with Wildavsky],  94-5 -- Risk and Culture [with Wildavsky],  161 -- social construction of risk,  206 -- Down 's Syndrome, religious interpretation of 101-2 -- East Africa, HIV/AIDS among prostitutes 31 -- eco-politics, in Amazonia 245-7 -- ecology -- 232-4 -- Amazonia and,  239 -- Amazonia and,  239 -- Amazonia and,  240-1 -- Amazonia and,  240-1 -- economics of risk 141 -- environmental risk -- 4 -- 108 -- 109 -- 129-30n -- 141 -- as global,  160-1 -- in Amazonia,  227 -- in Amazonia,  241 -- epidemiology -- 16 -- and AIDS,  64 -- and measurement of risk,  33 -- and measurement of risk,  37-8 -- and measurement of risk,  48 -- and measurement of risk,  64 -- and measurement of risk,  92 -- and models of complexity,  208-10 -- scepticism of,  48-9 -- experts -- and lay knowledge/understanding,  



205 -- and lay knowledge/understanding,  220 -- Montserrat,  163-4 -- Montserrat,  170-1 -- externalisation of risk -- 17-18 -- view of role of British Army,  149-51 -- view of role of British Army,  149-51 -- view of role of British Army,  152 -- view of role of British Army,  152 -- fatalism -- 98 -- 170 -- 216 -- food scares 186-7 -- Gaia -- 229 -- 232 -- gender inequality -- and contraception,  81-2n -- and spread of AIDS in Africa,  63.

and spread of AIDS in Africa,  69-70.

Sommario/riassunto

A range of distinguished anthropologists and sociologists re-examine the concept of risk in contemporary societies.