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Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number Four, Fall 1994, Risk Editorial Board Sep 1994

Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number Four, Fall 1994, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)

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Comparison Of Environmental Risk Provisions In The 103d Congress, Linda-Jo Schierow Sep 1994

Comparison Of Environmental Risk Provisions In The 103d Congress, Linda-Jo Schierow

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Schierow, an Analyst in Environmental Policy with the Congressional Research Service, presents a tabulated summary of comparable provisions in several bills with special attention to the Risk Assessment Improvement Act of 1994.

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Preferences For Exposure Control Of Power-Frequency Fields Among Lay Opinion Leaders, Ann Bostrom, M. Granger Morgan, Jack Adams, Indira Nair Sep 1994

Preferences For Exposure Control Of Power-Frequency Fields Among Lay Opinion Leaders, Ann Bostrom, M. Granger Morgan, Jack Adams, Indira Nair

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The authors report on surveys, differing according to focus on remedial costs, of Pittsburgh-area adults indicating beliefs about possible health effects of electromagnetic fields and the acceptability of options for reducing or eliminating the potential impact.

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Trace Substances, Science And Law: Perspectives From The Social Sciences, James F. Short Jr. Sep 1994

Trace Substances, Science And Law: Perspectives From The Social Sciences, James F. Short Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Using advances in analytical technology as a point of departure, Dr. Short reviews what social science research reveals about perceptions, decision making processes and behaviors of organizations and individuals who try to cope with risk and uncertainty.

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Review Of: Gerald Holton, Science And Anti-Science, Russell W. Binns Jr. Sep 1994

Review Of: Gerald Holton, Science And Anti-Science, Russell W. Binns Jr.

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Review of : Gerald Holton, Science and Anti-Science (Harvard University Press 1993). LC 92-272; ISBN 0-674-79298-X. Index, notes, preface, sources. [176 pp. Cloth $24.95. 79 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138.]

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Five Year Cumulative Index: Book Reviews & Essays By Title, Risk Editorial Board Sep 1994

Five Year Cumulative Index: Book Reviews & Essays By Title, Risk Editorial Board

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A five year cumulative index of book reviews and essays by title for the journal RISK.

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Mapping--The Missing Link In Reducing Risk Under Sara Iii, Ute J. Dymon Sep 1994

Mapping--The Missing Link In Reducing Risk Under Sara Iii, Ute J. Dymon

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Dymon explains how maps can, e.g., hasten effective community responses to natural and artificial hazards and laments widespread failure to prepare and use hazard maps more extensively.

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Five Year Cumulative Index: Articles And Comments By Title, Risk Editorial Board Sep 1994

Five Year Cumulative Index: Articles And Comments By Title, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

A five year cumulative index of articles and comments by title for the journal RISK.

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Reporting On Risk: Who Decides What's News?, William Lanouette Jun 1994

Reporting On Risk: Who Decides What's News?, William Lanouette

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Lanouette argues that risks alone do not command national media attention; their implications must first be framed by broader national issues.

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Community Structure And Media Risk Coverage, Sharon Dunwoody Jun 1994

Community Structure And Media Risk Coverage, Sharon Dunwoody

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Dunwoody regards media organizations to be community creatures; their accounts to be social constructions; and answers to, "Who's right?" to be relative.

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Historical Notes On German Press Coverage Of Technology, Hans Mathias Kepplinger Jun 1994

Historical Notes On German Press Coverage Of Technology, Hans Mathias Kepplinger

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Kepplinger accounts for increased negativism in German media coverage of technology by pointing to changes in journalists' role definitions and attitudes.

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The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman Jun 1994

The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Friedman argues that, for risks to be reported accurately, journalism educators must help their students understand science, numbers and statistics.

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Reporting Risk: The Case Of Silicone Breast Implants, Dorothy Nelkin Jun 1994

Reporting Risk: The Case Of Silicone Breast Implants, Dorothy Nelkin

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Nelkin finds journalists to be, if reluctantly, subject to influence and describes their uneasy relationship with scientists in filling a difficult role.

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Technical Risk In The Mass Media: Introduction, Allan Mazur Jun 1994

Technical Risk In The Mass Media: Introduction, Allan Mazur

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Special editor, Professor Mazur introduces and explains the origins of the symposium.

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Mass Media As An Information Channel And Public Arena, Hans Peter Peters Jun 1994

Mass Media As An Information Channel And Public Arena, Hans Peter Peters

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Professor Peters argues that several functions of mass media compete and that attempts to improve risk coverage must avoid optimizing one at the expense of others.

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Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number Three, Summer 1994, Risk Editorial Board Jun 1994

Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number Three, Summer 1994, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)

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Reporting On Risk: How The Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters And Other Hazards, Eleanor Singer, Phyllis M. Endreny Jun 1994

Reporting On Risk: How The Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters And Other Hazards, Eleanor Singer, Phyllis M. Endreny

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The authors summarize their large survey of hazard stories, showing that characteristics of news media affect risk presentation.

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Mass Media And Environmental Risk: Seven Principles, Peter M. Sandman Jun 1994

Mass Media And Environmental Risk: Seven Principles, Peter M. Sandman

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Dr. Sandman suggests that, when spokespersons for risk sources are inept in conveying their messages, they and we pay heavily for their mistakes.

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Hindsight, Organizational Routines And Media Risk Coverage, Robert A. Stallings Jun 1994

Hindsight, Organizational Routines And Media Risk Coverage, Robert A. Stallings

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Stallings describes how journalists explain catastrophes by coupling them with flaws in human organizations.

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Overview Of Federal Technology Transfer, Lawrence Rudolph Mar 1994

Overview Of Federal Technology Transfer, Lawrence Rudolph

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Mr. Rudolph reviews approximately thirteen years of legal and political developments that have contributed to laws governing the extent to which private firms may secure rights in technology at least partly developed with federal funds.

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Technology Transfer: A View From The Trenches, Harvey Drucker Mar 1994

Technology Transfer: A View From The Trenches, Harvey Drucker

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Drucker, who has lab-wide responsibility for technology transfer at Argonne National Laboratory, argues that transferring rights in discoveries made through tax supported research to private entities can contribute to public welfare in many ways.

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Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number Two, Spring 1994, Risk Editorial Board Mar 1994

Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number Two, Spring 1994, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)

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Quantitative Economic Evaluations Of Hiv-Related Prevention And Treatment Services: A Review, David R. Holtgrave, Ronald O. Valdiserri, Gary A. West Jan 1994

Quantitative Economic Evaluations Of Hiv-Related Prevention And Treatment Services: A Review, David R. Holtgrave, Ronald O. Valdiserri, Gary A. West

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Holtgrave and colleagues at the CDC set forth an extensive taxonomy of HIV prevention and treatment services and review reports of efforts to subject some of those services to formal economic evaluation. They find few services thus far to have been so evaluated, no evaluation to have focused solely upon behavioral outcomes and most economic evaluations to lack formal quantitative analyses.

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Review Of: The Ethics Of Reproductive Technology (Kenneth D. Alpern Ed., Oxford University Press 1992), Rochelle S. Ferber Jan 1994

Review Of: The Ethics Of Reproductive Technology (Kenneth D. Alpern Ed., Oxford University Press 1992), Rochelle S. Ferber

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: The Ethics of Reproductive Technology (Kenneth D. Alpern ed., Oxford University Press 1992). Additional readings, glossary, introduction, notes, preface. LC 92-8252; ISBN 0-19-507435-1. [370 pp. Paper $19.95. 200 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10016.]

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A Case Study Of Health Risk Communication: What The Public Wants And What It Gets, Jeannette M. Trauth Jan 1994

A Case Study Of Health Risk Communication: What The Public Wants And What It Gets, Jeannette M. Trauth

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Trauth presents a content analysis of 40 years of coverage of a major local source of air pollution by a Pittsburgh newspaper. She also summarizes the results of a survey conducted to determine the extent to which citizens of most likely affected communities, e.g., understand health risks and desire further information.

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Review Of: Eleanor Singer & Phyllis M. Endreny, Reporting On Risk, Mladen Singer Jan 1994

Review Of: Eleanor Singer & Phyllis M. Endreny, Reporting On Risk, Mladen Singer

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: Eleanor Singer & Phyllis M. Endreny, Reporting on Risk (Russell Sage Foundation 1993). Acknowledgments, index, notes, preface, references, tables. LC 92-40130; ISBN 0-87154-801-1. [256 pp. Cloth $24.95. 112 East 64th Street, New York NY 10021.]

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Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number One, Winter 1994, Risk Editorial Board Jan 1994

Table Of Contents Volume Five, Number One, Winter 1994, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)

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Acceptable Risk: A Conceptual Proposal, Baruch Fischhoff Jan 1994

Acceptable Risk: A Conceptual Proposal, Baruch Fischhoff

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Challenging the "de minimis risk" concept, Dr. Fischhoff argues that risks ought not to be considered apart from a particular technology's benefits. He argues, too, that the acceptability of particular kinds of risks should not be determined without considering the views of all persons who may be exposed. Finally, building upon the "reasonable person" construct, he suggests ways those goals might be achieved.

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