Risk

Risk

Deborah Lupton

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2023
ISBN:
9781032327006
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Risk asserts the ongoing importance of the analysis of risk in our age of permacrisis and mounting scepticism about experts and science, and calls for a ’re-turn’ to risk theory. This fully revised and expanded new edition includes a new chapter on risk information and denial in the context of the climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic.

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