Risk and morality
Record details
- ISBN: 6611994343
- ISBN: 9786611994341
- ISBN: 1281994340
- ISBN: 9781281994349
- ISBN: 1442679387
- ISBN: 9781442679382
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 461 pages) : illustrations.
remote - Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
- Copyright: ©2003
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Risk and morality / Richard V. Ericson, Aaron Doyle -- Risk and dirt / Ian Hacking -- The rise of risk / David Garland -- Risk and morality : three framing devices / John Adams -- New moralities of risk and political responsibility / Violaine Roussel -- Risk management and the responsible organization / Michael Power -- Risk and moralization in everyday life / Alan Hunt -- From risk to precaution : the rationalities of personal crime prevention / Kevin D. Haggerty -- Moral uncertainties : contract law and distinctions between speculation, gambling, and insurance / Pat O'Malley -- Containing the promise of insurance : adverse selection and risk classification / Tom Baker -- Insurers as moral actors / Carol A. Heimer -- The moral risks of private justice : the case of insurance fraud / Richard V. Ericson, Aaron Doyle -- Risking rescue : high altitude rescue as moral risk and moral opportunity / Jonathan Simon -- The neurochemical self and its anomalies / Nikolas Rose -- Targeted governance and the problem of desire / Mariana Valverde. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Social ethics Risk -- Sociological aspects Risk -- Moral and ethical aspects |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |