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Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame
Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame
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.
256 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 30, 2003 |
ISBN13 | 9780275978693 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 167 × 236 × 24 mm · 521 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Harthorn, Barbara H. |
Editor | Oaks, Laury |