Risk, culture, and health inequality : shifting perceptions of danger and blame / / edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks ; foreword by Dorothy Nelkin
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| Titolo: |
Risk, culture, and health inequality : shifting perceptions of danger and blame / / edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks ; foreword by Dorothy Nelkin
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , c2003 |
| London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1/042 |
| Soggetto topico: | Applied anthropology |
| Equality - Health aspects | |
| Health risk assessment | |
| Public health - Social aspects | |
| Altri autori: |
HarthornBarbara Herr <1951->
OaksLaury <1967->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Risk, culture, and health inequality |
| ISBN: | 979-82-16-00932-0 |
| 1-282-42726-1 | |
| 9786612427268 | |
| 0-313-03920-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809066803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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