Risk and the Good Life: Representative Bibliography
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Princeton University Press, 1984).
Arrow, K. Social Choice and Individual Values (2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).
Beck, U. Ecological Enlightenment (trans. M. Ritter) (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1995)
Bell, D. H. Raiffa, A. Tversky (eds.) Decision Making: Descriptive, Normative, and Prescriptive
Interactions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Bernstein, P. Against the Odds: The Remarkable Story of Risk (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1996).
Brandt, A. “The Cigarette, Risk, and American Culture,” Daedalus Fall 1990.
Brown, P. and E. Mikkelsen, No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Activity
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
Burkert, W. Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1979)
Crimp, D.(ed.) AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989).
Daly, H. and Kenneth Townsend, (eds.), Valuing the Earth (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993).
DeLillo, D. White Noise. (New York: Viking, 1984).
Douglas, M. and A. Wildavsky, Risk and Culture. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982)
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. (London: Penguin, 1966).
Evans-Pritchards, E. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1937; abridged ed.1976)
Fee, E. and Fox, D. AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease. (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1992).
Fischhoff, B. (1991). “Value Elicitation: Is There Anything in There?” American Psychologist 1991.
Funtowicz, Silvio and J. Ravetz. Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy. (Dordrecht: Kluwer,
1990).
Glickman, T. and M. Gough (eds.), Readings in Risk. (Washington D.C.: Resources for the Future,
1990).
Golding D. and S. Krimsky, Social Theories of Risk (New York: Praeger, 1993).
Gottfried, The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (New York: Free
Press, 1983).
Gregory, R. S. Lichtenstein, and P. Slovic. “Valuing Environmental Resources: A Constructive
Approach,” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1993.
Hacking, Ian, The Taming of Chance. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Howard, P. The Death of Common Sense (New York: Random House, 1994).
Jacob, G. Site Unseen: The Politics of Siting a Nuclear Waste Repository. (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1990).
Jasanoff, Sheila.. The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers. (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1990).
Kahneman, D. et.al (eds.). Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1982).
Katz, L. Ill-Gotten Gains (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
Keeney, R. Value-Focused Thinking (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).
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Kramer, H. and Sprenger, J. (M. Summers trans. and ed.). The Malleus Maleficarum (New York:
Dover, 1971).
Krimsky, Sheldon and A. Plough. Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as a Social Process.
(Dover, MA: Auburn House, 1988).
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Oxford University Press, 1990).
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Matossian, M. Poisons of the Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989)
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and Policy Analysis. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
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National Research Council. Understanding Risk. (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996).
New York Times. “Cigarette Makers Debated Risks They Denied.” June 16, 1994.
New York Times. “Polls May Help Government Decide the Worth of Nature.” September 6, 1993.
Nussbaum, M. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (New
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Osborne, D. and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government (New York: Plume, 1992).
Plato. Republic, in E. Hamilton and H. Cairns (eds.) Plato: Collected Dialogues. (Princeton: Princeton
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Rawls, J. A Theory of Justice. (2nd ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999)
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Schneider, S. Global Warming: Are We In the Greenhouse Century? San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,
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Singer, P. Practical Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Slovic, P. “The Construction of Preference,” American Psychologist 1995 .
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Wilson, B. (ed.), Rationality (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1970)
Winch, P. The Idea of A Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy (London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1958)
Zajac, E. Political Economy of Fairness (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995).
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