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

by Laury Oaks

Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory chapter by the two co-editors analyzes and contextualizes current scholarly debates on the social, cultural, and political construction of risk. It is followed by an overview on the anthropology of harm reduction that outlines an innovative framework for culturally informed risk analysis. The remaining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275978699
• ISBN13: 9780275978693
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"