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Hazards, Risks, and Enterprise: Approaches to Science, Law, and Social Policy

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Wildavsky Aaron. Searching for Safety. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books 1988. xii + 253 pp. Notes, index.
Douglas Mary. Risk Acceptability According to the Social Sciences. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1985. 115 pp. Bibliography.
Clarke Lee. Acceptable Risk? Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. xiii + 229 pp. References, list of interviews, index.

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James F. Short
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Law & Society Review , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 1990 , pp. 179 - 198
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Copyright © 1990 Law and Society Association.

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I am grateful to colleagues Bill Catton, Lisa McIntyre, and Gene Rosa, and to Editor Joe Sanders for their careful and critical reading of earlier drafts, which I hope have been improved as a result of their suggestions.

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