Risk Media and Stigma: Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology (Earthscan Risk in Society)

by JamesFlynn (Editor), PaulSlovic (Editor), HowardKunreuther (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.98

  The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. This title presents an examination of how and why stigma occurs and what the appropriate responses to it should be to inform the public and reduce undesirable impacts.