Risky Business: Communicating Issues of Science, Risk, and Public Policy

by Philip Patterson and Lillian C. Black Wilkins

The fifteen chapters in this volume deal with science, medicine, technology, disaster, and hazard coverage by the media from the perspectives of sociology, psychology, philosophy, and journalism. Written for the active reader who is concerned about the issues and willing to begin the work necessary to bring about change, the volume suggests ways in which journalists, policy makers, and citizens can work to correct some of the more pervasive problems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313266018
• ISBN13: 9780313266010
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"