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Author: Committee on Risk Characterization
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0309089565
Category: Medical

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The key task of risk characterization is to provide needed and appropriate information to decisionmakers and the public. This important new volume illustrates that making risks understandable to the public involves much more than translating scientific knowledge. The volume also draws conclusions about what society should expect from risk characterization and offers clear guidelines and principles for informing the wide variety of risk decisions that face our increasingly technological society. Understanding Get Understanding Risk our bestseller medical books.

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