Acceptable Evidence : Science and Values in Risk Management.
Title:
Acceptable Evidence : Science and Values in Risk Management.
Author:
Mayo, Deborah G.
ISBN:
9780195358322
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Series:
Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- I: PERCEIVING AND COMMUNICATING RISK EVIDENCE -- Introduction -- 1. Hidden Hazards -- 2. Acceptable Evidence in a Pluralistic Society -- 3. Beyond Numbers: A Broader Perspective on Risk Perception and Risk Communication -- 4. Guidelines for Communicating Information About Chemical Risks Effectively and Responsibly -- II: UNCERTAIN EVIDENCE IN RISK MANAGEMENT -- Introduction -- 5. Risk Assessment and Risk Management: An Uneasy Divorce -- 6. Understanding Uncertainties in Medical Evidence: Professional and Public Responsibilities -- 7. Evidential, Ethical, and Policy Disputes: Admissible Evidence in Radioactive Waste Management -- 8. Expert Claims and Social Decisions: Science, Politics, and Responsibility -- III: PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE -- Introduction -- 9. Knowledge, Values, and Technological Decisions: A Decision Theoretic Approach -- 10. Causing Harm: Epidemiological and Physiological Concepts of Causation -- 11. Reductionist Approaches to Risk -- 12. Sociological Versus Metascientific Views of Risk Assessment -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk. By focusing on acceptable evidence, this volume avoids two barriers to progress. One barrier assumes that evidence of risk is largely a matter of objective scientific data and therefore uncontroversial. The other assumes that evidence of risk, being "just" a matter of values, is not amenable to reasoned critique. Denying both extremes, this volume argues for a more constructive conclusion: understanding the interrelations of scientific and value issues enables a critical scrutiny of risk assessments and better public deliberation about social choices. The contributors, distinguished philosophers, policy analysts, and natural and social scientists, analyze environmental and medical controversies, and assumptions underlying views about risk assessment and the scientific and statistical models used in risk management.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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