Risk revisited / / edited by Pat Caplan

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 258 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 302/.12
• Soggetto topico: Risk - Sociological aspects; Risk perception
• Altri autori: CaplanPatricia
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Risk revisited
• ISBN: 1-84964-047-5; 0-585-42627-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821396603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology, culture, and society.