Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment

Book Overview

We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? In Risk versus Risk , John D. Graham, Jonathan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674773071
• ISBN13: 9780674773073
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"