LEADER 03861nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910455566503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-226-03517-4 010 $a9786612537387 010 $a1-282-53738-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226035178 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006444 035 $a(EBL)496609 035 $a(OCoLC)593295911 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337108 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11241334 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337108 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10288686 035 $a(PQKB)10795803 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122538 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC496609 035 $a(DE-B1597)525032 035 $a(OCoLC)1135588055 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226035178 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL496609 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10372056 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253738 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006444 100 $a20010615d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEmbracing risk$b[electronic resource] $ethe changing culture of insurance and responsibility /$fedited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-03518-2 311 $a0-226-03519-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContributors -- $t1. Embracing Risk -- $t2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility -- $t3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity -- $t4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England -- $t5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain -- $t6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance -- $t7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance -- $t8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies -- $t9. At Risk of Madness -- $t10. The Policing of Risk -- $t11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution -- $tIndex 330 $aFor much of the twentieth century, industrialized nations addressed social problems, such as workers' compensation benefits and social welfare programs, in terms of spreading risk. But in recent years a new approach has emerged: using risk both as a way to conceive of and address social problems and as an incentive to reduce individual claims on collective resources. Embracing Risk explores this new approach from a variety of perspectives. The first part of the book focuses on the interplay between risk and insurance in various historical and social contexts. The second part examines how risk is used to govern fields outside the realm of insurance, from extreme sports to policing, mental health institutions, and international law. Offering an original approach to risk, insurance, and responsibility, the provocative and wide-ranging essays in Embracing Risk demonstrate that risk has moved well beyond its origins in the insurance trade to become a central organizing principle of social and cultural life. 606 $aRisk$xSociological aspects 606 $aRisk (Insurance) 606 $aResponsibility 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRisk$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aRisk (Insurance) 615 0$aResponsibility. 676 $a302.12 686 $aMB 3250$qBSZ$2rvk 701 $aBaker$b Tom$f1959-$0919330 701 $aSimon$b Jonathan$f1959-$0857397 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455566503321 996 $aEmbracing risk$92204309 997 $aUNINA