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Acceptable risk? : making decisions in a toxic environment / Lee Clarke. |
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| Imprint |
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989. |
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| Description |
xiii, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index. |
| Contents |
Creating Risks -- The Binghamton State Office Building -- Organizational Anarchy and Personal Jeopardy -- Organizational Chaos: Beginning Decontamination and Medical Surveillance -- Decontamination -- Medical Surveillance -- Interpreting Organizational Anarchy -- Constricting the Field of Organizations -- Local Agencies -- County Agencies -- State Agencies -- Federal Agencies -- An Excursus on Resolving Organizational Dilemmas: The County Government's Risk -- Defining the Problem -- Assessing Consequences -- Ordering Alternatives -- Constructing Acceptable Risk Assessments -- Accepting Risk -- Organizing Medical Surveillance -- Assessing the Problem -- A Smooth Beginning -- Turmoil and Tumult -- Malleable Science -- The Emergent Division of Labor -- Postscript to Medical Surveillance -- Organizing Decontamination -- Chemical Problems -- An Attempted Solution -- The Context for Decision Making -- The Solution -- Symbolic Risk: Decontamination or Destruction? -- The Exposed -- Exposed Workers -- Organizing Dissent -- Organizing Risk -- Disruption of Routine -- An Interorganizational Garbage Can -- The Action Set -- The Structural Basis of Individual Dissent -- Theories of Choice -- Symbols and Organizational Deceit -- The Sociology of Risk -- The Players -- A Methodological Accounting. |
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Environmental protection -- United States.
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Risk assessment -- United States.
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Environmental health -- United States.
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Environmental policy -- United States.
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