Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality

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ISBN: 0275978699
Category: Medical

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

Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. Download Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality medical books for free.
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 nine chapters are organized into three sections, The Cultivation of Fear, Perceptions of Health, Safety, and Hazard: Risk Makers and Risk Takers, and Regulating Risk and the Public's Health. The book aims to address a set of questions of theoretical and practical importance to anthropologists, so Get Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality our bestseller medical books.

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