Risk Culture & Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame

by Laury Oaks (Editor), Laury Oaks (Editor), Barbara Harthorn (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $83.14

  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.