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General Reading (8 items)
Risk: an introduction - Arnoldi, Jakob, 2009Book | Core (Must Read)
Risk society: towards a new modernity - Beck, Ulrich, 1992Book | Core (Must Read)
Risk and culture: an essay on the selection of technical and environmental dangers -Douglas, Mary, Wildavsky, Aaron B., c1982
Book | Core (Must Read)
Risk - Lupton, Deborah, 1999Book | Core (Must Read)
Risk - Adams, John, 1995Book | Core (Must Read)
The social amplification of risk - Pidgeon, Nick F., Kasperson, Roger E., Slovic, Paul, 2003Book | Core (Must Read)
Risk in social science - Taylor-Gooby, Peter, Zinn, Jens, 2006Book | Core (Must Read)
Social theories of risk and uncertainty: an introduction - Zinn, Jens, Dawsonera, 2008Book | Core (Must Read)
Websites (9 items)
International Sociological Risk newsWebsite
The Society for Risk AnalysisWebsite
RiskWorld:Website
Social ResearchWebsite
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JunkScienceWebsite
Harvard Center for Risk AnalysisWebsite
Pierce Law’s siteWebpage
BandolierWebpage
Understanding UncertaintyWebsite
Journals (6 items)
HealthJournal
Health, Risk and SocietyJournal
Journal of Risk ResearchJournal
Risk AnalysisJournal
European journal of risk regulationJournal
Centre for the Analysis of Risk and RegulationWebpage
Week 1: A World of Probability and Risk Perception (11 items)
Required readings: (2 items)
Anthony Giddens, The Reith LecturesWebpage | Core (Must Read)
Runaway world: how globalisation is reshaping our lives - Giddens, Anthony, 2002Book | Core (Must Read)
Recommended readings: (9 items)
Big data: a revolution that will transform how we live, work and think -Mayer-Scho
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nberger, Viktor, Cukier, Kenneth, 2013
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
To save everything, click here: technology, solutionism, and the urge to fix problems thatdon't exist - Evgeny Morozov, 2013
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The signal and the noise: the art and science of prediction - Silver, Nate, 2012Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Rise of Risk and the Decline of Politics - S Rayner, 2007Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk: improving government's capability to handle risk and uncertaintyWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
Civilization and Madness: The Great BSE Scare of 1996 - S Jasanoff, 1997Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Attractions of Risk-Based Regulation: Accounting for the Emergence of Risk Ideas inRegulation - B Hutter
Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)
Imagining Numbers: Risk, Quantification, and Aviation Security - M Salter, 2008Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Extrajudicial Killing as Risk Management - O Kessler, W Werner, 2008Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Week 2: Key Concepts: from Hazard to Risk & Uncertainty (21 items)
Required readings: (3 items)
Reckoning with risk: learning to live with uncertainty - Gigerenzer, Gerd, 2003Book | Core (Must Read) | Innumeracy (chapter 3)
CEFIC Risk and hazard pamphlet:
http://www.dehp-facts.com/upload/documents/webpage/document52.pdf
Hazard and RiskWebpage | Core (Must Read)
Recommended readings: (18 items)
The signal and the noise: the art and science of prediction - Silver, Nate, 2012Book | Recommended (Should Read)
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Chance rules: an informal guide to probability, risk and statistics - Everitt, Brian, c2008Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk - Skinns, Layla, Scott, Michael, Cox, Tony, 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read) | David Spiegelhalter, Quantifying Uncertainty
Radiation and reason: the impact of science on a culture of fear - Allison, Wade, c2009Book | Recommended (Should Read) | (chapter 5)
REACH: The RSC ResponseWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
BERR Hazard/Risk Debate
http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file49123.pdf
Hazard versus risk - J A Singley, 2004Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabilistic risk assessment - WRFreudenberg, 1988
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Probability, an introduction - Goldberg, S., [1960]Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and gambling: the study of subjective probability - Cohen, John, Hansel, Mark, [1956]Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Probability and statistics for everyman: how to understand and use the laws of chance -Adler, I., [1963]
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Cost-Effectiveness. - T O Tengs, M EAdams, J S Pliskin, D G Safran, J E Siegel, J D Graham, 1995
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and chance: selected readings - Dowie, Jack, Lefrere, Paul, 1980Book | Recommended (Should Read) | How Safe is Safe enough?
How Safe is Enough? A Psychometric Study of Attitudes Towards Technological Risks andBenefits - B Fishchoff, 1978
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Baruch Fishchoff, 'Acceptable Risk'
http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/winter/Fischhof.htm
Adam Finkel, Comparing Risks Thoughtfully:
http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/winter/Fischhof.htm
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Baruch Fishchoff, Ranking Risks
http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/summer/friedman.htm
(LINKS BROKEN CONSULT CONVEYNOR)
Risk versus risk: tradeoffs in protecting health and the environment - Graham, John D.,Wiener, Jonathan Baert, 1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk migration and scientific advance: the case of flame-retardant compounds - RuthAlcock, Jerry Busby, 2006
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Fatal tradeoffs: public and private responsibilities for risk - Viscusi, W. Kip, 1995Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Week 3: Risk Perception: From Psychological to CulturalUnderstandings (15 items)
Required readings: (3 items)
Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness - Thaler, Richard H.,Sunstein, Cass R., 2009
Book | Core (Must Read) | (chapter 1)
Perception of Risk - Paul Slovic, 1987Article | Core (Must Read)
Gender, Race and Perception of Environmental Health Risks - J Flynn, 1994Article | Core (Must Read)
Recommended readings: (12 items)
The Risk Perception Paradox-Implications for Governance and Communication of NaturalHazards - Gisela Wachinger, Ortwin Renn, Chloe Begg, Christian Kuhlicke, 2013-06
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Norm chronicles: stories and numbers about danger - Blastland, Michael,Spiegelhalter, D. J., 2013
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Theories of Risk Perception: Who Fears What and Why - Karl Dake, Aaron Wildavsky, 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Contextualizing Risk and Danger: An Analysis of Young People's Perceptions of Risk -Green, W Mitchell, R Bunton, 2000
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
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How does the public evaluate risk information? The impact of associations with other risks- H Visschers, 2007
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk acceptability according to the social sciences - Douglas, Mary, 1986Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and culture: an essay on the selection of technical and environmental dangers -Douglas, Mary, Wildavsky, Aaron B., c1982
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
EC. 2008. Standard Eurobarometer 68/Autumn 2007 – TNS Opinion and Social. Brussels:EC.http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb/eb68/eb68_uk_exec.pdf
HSE. 2002. Taking Account of Societal Concerns About Risk; Framing the Problem.Research Report 35 prepared John Adams and Michael Thompson. London: HSE availableat: http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr035.pdf
Eiser, J.R. 2004. Public Perception of Risk: Report Prepared for Foresight Office of Scienceand Technology http://www.bps.org.uk/downloadfile.cfm?file_uuid=32091FD8-1143-DFD0-7EE2-654945275BF6&ext=pdf
Social trust and the management of risk - Cvetkovich, George,Lofstedt, Ragnar E., 1999
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Dealing with risk: why the public and the experts disagree on environmental issues -Margolis, Howard, 1996
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Social Structure, Psychology, and the Estimation of Risk - C Heimer, 1988Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Frank Cross, The Risk of Reliance on Perceived Riskhttp://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol3/winter/cross.htm
Week 4: Stepping Back: Risk and Modernity (18 items)
Required Readings: (1 items)
Adam Burgess, Thinking Historically About Risk: From Ancient Roman Fears to ModernAmerican Anxieties, (on Moodle)
Adam Burgess, From Morality to Risk to Nudging, (on Moodle)
Recommended readings: (17 items)
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Risk is a construct - 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Peter Wiedemann, 1993, Taboo, Sin, Risk:
Changes in the Social Perception of Hazards
Against the gods: the remarkable story of risk - Bernstein, Peter L., 1996Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. intro. and chapters 2 and 3
Risk: an introduction - Arnoldi, Jakob, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 2
Chance rules: an informal guide to probability, risk and statistics - Everitt, Brian, c2008Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 1.
Risk and morality - Ericson, Richard Victor, Doyle, Aaron, c2003Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Ian Hacking, Risk and Dirt
Risk - Skinns, Layla, Scott, Michael, Cox, Tony, 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Mary Beard, Risk and the Humanities
Fortune is a woman: gender and politics in the thought ofNiccolo Machiavelli - Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel, c1984
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 6,
Risk as Forensic Resource - Mary Douglas, 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)
A sociology of health - Wainwright, David, 2008Book | Recommended (Should Read) | ‘Health Concerns and Risk Awareness’
Risk and society - Denney, David, Dawsonera, 2005Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 1.
Victorian writing about risk: imagining a safe England in a dangerous world - Freedgood,Elaine, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and uncertainty in tribal and peasant economies - 1990Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Michael Baksh and Allen Johnson, 1990 Insurance
Policies Among the Machiguenga: An Ethnographic Analysis of Risk Management in aNon-Western Society’
Risk - Lupton, Deborah, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 1.
From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure andEcological Enlightenment - Ulrich Beck, 1992
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The natural and the social: uncertainty, risk, change - Hinchliffe, Steve, Woodward, Kath,Open University, 2000
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Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and misfortune: a social construction of accidents - Green, Judith, 1997Book | Recommended (Should Read) | ch.3
The emergence of probability: a philosophical study of early ideas about probability,induction and statistical inference - Hacking, Ian, 1975
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Week 5: READING WEEK
Week 6: Silent Spring: The Emergence of Modern Environmental andConsumer Risk (30 items)
Required Readings: (1 items)
Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution - Burgess, Adam, 2004Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 6
Recommended readings: (29 items)
Silent spring - Carson, Rachel Louise, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The gentle subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmentalmovement - Lytle, Mark H., 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
What a book can do: the publication and reception of Silent spring - Murphy, Priscilla Coit,2005
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Unsafe at any speed: the designed-in dangers of the American automobile - Nader, R.,1965
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
After the rights revolution: reconceiving the regulatory state - Sunstein, Cass R., 1990Book | Recommended (Should Read)
National styles of regulation: environmental policy in Great Britain and the United States -Vogel, David, 1986
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Social and cultural construction of risk: essays on risk selection and perception -c1987
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Jasanoff, S. 1987. ‘Cultural Aspects of RiskAssessment in Britain and the United States,’
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Health Information Dissemination in the Information Age: Media, Messages and Roles - RWigand, 1994
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and reason: safety, law, and the environment - Sunstein, Cass R., 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)
American fear: the causes and consequences of high anxiety - Stearns, Peter N., 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and culture: an essay on the selection of technical and environmental dangers -Douglas, Mary, Wildavsky, Aaron B., c1982
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Culture of fear: why Americans are afraid of the wong things - Glassner, Barry, 2010Book | Recommended (Should Read)
When all else fails: government as the ultimate risk manager - Moss, David A., 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Searching for safety - Wildavsky, Aaron B., Bowling Green State University, 1988Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Changing Character of Regulation: A Comparison of Europe and the United States -Ragnar Ragnar, David Vogel, 2002
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Product, Process, or Programme: Three Cultures and the Regulation of Biotechnology - SJasanoff
Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Comparing Precaution in the United States and Europe - J B Wiener, M D Rogers, 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Facts Versus Fears (Fourth Edition) | American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)
The Social and cultural construction of risk: essays on risk selection and perception -c1987
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Science under siege: balancing technology and the environment - Fumento, Michael, 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Unsafe at any speed: the designed-in dangers of the American automobile - Nader, R.,1965
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Confronting public health risks: a decision maker's guide - Leviton, Laura C., Needleman,Carolyn Emerson, Shapiro, Maurice A., 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
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Confronting public health risks: a decision maker's guide - Leviton, Laura C., Needleman,Carolyn Emerson, Shapiro, Maurice A., 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Introduction
Science on trial: the clash of medical evidence and the law in the breast implant case -Angell, Marcia, 1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Voodoo science: the road from foolishness to fraud - Park, Robert L., 2000Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Cigarette, Risk and American Culture - A Brandt, 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The policy response to the smoking and lung cancer connection in the 1950s and 1960s -V Berridge, 2006
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
American Exceptionalism and the Political Acknowledgement of Risk - Sheila Jasanoff, 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Consuming fears: the politics of product risks - c1986Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Week 7: Chernobyl, Beck and the ‘Risk Society’ (23 items)
Required readings: (2 items)
Risk: an introduction - Arnoldi, Jakob, 2009Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 3
Revisiting Risk Society: A Conversation with Ulrich BeckWebpage | Core (Must Read)
Recommended readings: (21 items)
Risk society: towards a new modernity - Beck, Ulrich, 1992Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Making of the Risk-Centred Society and the Limits of Social Risk Research - AdamBurgess, 2006
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Modernity and self-identity: self and society in the late modern age - Giddens, Anthony,1991
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Individualization: institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences -Beck, Ulrich, Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, Dawsonera, 2002
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Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The risk society and beyond: critical issues for social theory - Adam, Barbara, Beck, Ulrich,Loon, Joost van, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Environment, Modernity and the Risk Society: The Apocalyptic Horizon of EnvironmentalReform - A P J Mol, G Spaargaren, 1993
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Beck’s Sociology of Risk: A Critical Assessment - A Elliott, 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk Society and Reflexive Modernization - J O ZinnChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
The Parameters of the Risk Society: A Review and Exploration - M Ekberg, 2007Article | Recommended (Should Read) | Critique of the Risk Society’ (pp. 360-363)
Social theories of risk - Krimsky, Sheldon, Golding, Dominic, 1992Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Beyond the risk society: critical reflections on risk and human security - Mythen, Gabe,Walklate, Sandra, 2006
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Ch. 1.
Aircraft Noise and Risk Politics - C Broer, 2007Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Chernobyl ForumWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
The terrorist threat: world risk society revisited - U Beck, 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Conversations with Ulrich Beck - Beck, Ulrich, Willms, Johannes, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Individualization: institutionalized individualism and its social and political consequences -Beck, Ulrich, Beck-Gernsheim, Elisabeth, Dawsonera, 2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk, Contingency and the Third Way: Evidence from the BHPS and Qualitative Studies -Pater Taylor Gooby, 2001
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Beck, Individualization and the Death of Class: A Critique. - W Atkinson, 2007Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The parameters of the risk society: A review and exploration. - M Ekberg, 2007Article | Recommended (Should Read)
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Agency, reflexivity and risk: cosmopolitan, - S Walklate, G Mythen, 2010Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The risk society and beyond: critical issues for social theory - Adam, Barbara, Beck, Ulrich,Loon, Joost van, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Week 8: Global Risk (23 items)
Required reading: (2 items)
Richard Smith, Infectious Disease and Risk: Lessons from SARS, Background Paper forNuffield Health Fund, March 2005
Runaway world: how globalisation is reshaping our lives - Giddens, Anthony, 2002Book | Core (Must Read)
Recommended readings: (21 items)
World risk society - Beck, Ulrich, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
World at risk - Beck, Ulrich, c2009Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Risk Society thesis in environmental Politics and management – a global perspective -D Matten, 2004
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Medicine at the border: disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present - Bashford,Alison, 2006
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Dread: how fear and fantasy have fueled epidemics from the Black Death to avian flu -Alcabes, Philip, 2009
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
WHO | Global health risksWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
The coming plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance - Garrett, Laurie,1995
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Networked disease: emerging infections in the global city - Ali, S. Harris, Keil, Roger, 2008Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Contagion and chaos: disease, ecology, and national security in the era of globalization -Price-Smith, Andrew T., Price-Smith, Andrew T., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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2009Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Destroyer and Teacher”: Managing the Masses During the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic -2010
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Media effects on students during SARS outbreak - S L Bergeron, A L Sanchez, 2005Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Evolution of infectious disease - Ewald, Paul W., 1994Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Susan Sontag, battle language and the Hong Kong SARS outbreak of 2003 - Peter Baehr,2006
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Psychosocial factors predicting SARS preventive behaviors in four major SARS affectedregions - Cecilia Cheng, Ng Kwang, 2006
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
SARSArticle | Recommended (Should Read)
Social Extremity, Communities of Fate, and the Sociology of SARS - Peter Baehr, 2005Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Vaccine anxieties: global science, child health and society - Leach, Melissa, Fairhead,James, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
SARS in China: prelude to pandemic? - Kleinman, Arthur, Watson, James L., 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Representations of SARS in the British media - P Washer, 2004Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media -Brigitte Nerlich, Christopher Halliday, 2007
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Disease Metaphors in New Epidemics: the UK Media Framing of the 2003 SARS Epidemic -P Wallis, B Nerlich, 2005
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Week 9: Risk Aversion and ‘Panics’ (59 items)
Required readings: (3 items)
Risk, Responsibility, Regulation: Whose Risk Is It Anyway?
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Webpage | Core (Must Read)
Swings and Roundabouts: Risk Anxiety and the Everyday Worlds of Children - Sue Scott,Stevi Jackson, Kathryn Milburn, 1998
Article | Core (Must Read)
Swings and Roundabouts: Risk Anxiety and the Everyday Worlds of Children - Sue ScottChapter | Core (Must Read)
Recommended readings: (10 items)
Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution - Burgess, Adam, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Scared to death: from BSE to global warming : how scares are costing us the Earth -Booker, Christopher, North, Richard, 2007
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Moral panic versus the risk society: the implications of the changing sites of social anxiety- S Ungar, 2001
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
What price liberty? - Wilson, Ben, 2010Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 13.
The British regulatory state: high modernism and hyper-innovation - Moran, Michael, 2003Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The government of risk: understanding risk regulation regimes - Hood, Christopher,Rothstein, Henry, Baldwin, Robert, Oxford University Press, 2001 [repr. 2004]
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Chickengate: an independent investigation of the salmonella in eggs scare - North,Richard, Gorman, Teresa, Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain), 1990
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Mass listeria: the meaning of health scares - Dalrymple, Theodore, 1998Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Fragile science: the reality behind the headlines - Baker, R. Robin, 2001Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Life's adventure: virtual risk in a real world - Bate, Roger, 2000Book | Recommended (Should Read)
BSE (16 items)
Making a Crisis Out of a Drama: The Political Analysis of BSE Policy-Making in the UK - IForbes, 2004
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
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The politics of BSE - Packer, Richard, Dawsonera, 2006Book | Recommended (Should Read)
'Just Another Food Scare? Public Understanding and the BSE Crisis - Jaquie ReillyChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Response to the report of the BSE enquiry - Phillips, Nicholas, Great Britain, 2001Book | Recommended (Should Read) | BSE Enquiry. 2000. The Report. London: HMSO.
Mad Cows and Englishmen - David Miller, Jaquie Reilly, 1996Article | Recommended (Should Read)
BSE InquiryWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
The mad cow crisis: health and the public good - Ratzan, Scott C., 1998Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Eating British Beef - P CaplanChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Mad cows and modernity: cross-disciplinary reflections on the crisis of Creutzfeldt-Jakobdisease - McCalman, Iain, Penny, Benjamin, Cook, Misty, Australian National University,Australian National University, 1998
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Kerstin Dressel, The Cultural Politics of Science and Decision-Making An Anglo-GermanComparison of Risk Political Cultures: The BSE Case
http://bse.airtime.co.uk/dressel.htm (LINK BROKEN)
Exposure of the Human Population to BSE - P Comer, P Huntley, 2004Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Public Attitudes, Scientific Advice and the Politics of Regulatory Policy: The Case of BSE, -Lynn Frewer, B Salter, 2002
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk Society, Politics and BSE - Robin Grove-WhiteChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
GPs and the Social Amplification of BSE Related Risk - J Raud, 2004Article | Recommended (Should Read)
BSE as an Organisational Construction - V Tacke, 2001Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Civilization and Madness: The Great BSE Scare of 1996 - S Jasanoff, 1997Article | Recommended (Should Read)
GM Foods (16 items)
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excellent gm media report:http://www.parliament.uk/post/report138.pdf
Science, politics, and the GM debate in Europe - F Tencalla, 2006Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Against Anti-ScienceArticle | Recommended (Should Read)
GM Nation?: The findings of the public debate - Heller Richard (Ed)Book | Recommended (Should Read) | This item is out of print and there are no
available copies in the library
Biotechnology: the making of a global controversy - Bauer, Martin W., Gaskell, George,2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
ESRC | The Economic and Social Research CouncilWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
EU Safety Regulation of GM CropsWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
Genetically modified plants for food use and human healthWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
Pandora's picnic basket: the potential and hazards of genetically modified foods -McHughen, Alan, 2000
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The Media and GM Foods - Lyn Frewer, 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Novel Food, New Markets and Trust Regimes - Roberta Sassatelli, Alan Scott, 2001Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Flaws Undermine Results of UK Biotech Debate - S Campbell, E Townsend, 2003Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Science Policy and Society: the British Debate over GM Agriculture - George Gaskell, 2004Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Effects of Context and Feelings on Perceptions of Genetically Modified Food - E Townsend,D Clarke, B Travis, 2004
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Psychological Determinants of Willingness to Taste and Purchase GM Food - E Townsend, SCampbell, 2004
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Implicit Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Food: Comparison of Context Free andContext Dependent Situations - A Spence, E Townsend, 2006
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
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Mobile Phones (14 items)
Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution - Burgess, Adam, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 7
Swiss Re, ElectroSmog – A Phantom Riskhttp://www.swissreamerica.com/e/publications/publications/society1/electrosmog.htm
Website of the official UK radiation regulator:
http://www.nrpb.org/understand/index.htm
Website of the government's research programme on mobile phone health:
http://www.doh.gov.uk/mobilephones/research/index.htm
Website of the Stewart Inquiry: http://www.iegmp.org.uk/
World Health Organisation (WHO) International EMF Project Home Page:
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/
Managing the Possible Health Risks of Mobile Telecommunications: Public Understandingsof Precautionary Action and Advice - L Timotijevic, 2008
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Cell phones: invisible hazards in the wireless age : an insider's alarming discoveries aboutcancer and genetic damage ; with a new preface by the authors - Carlo, George Louis,Schram, Martin, 2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Rationality cut off in mobile phone row - S Chapman, 1995Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Mobile phones and the illusory pursuit of safety - P Dendy, 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Mobile Phones and HealthWebsite | Recommended (Should Read)
The health hazards of mobile phones – The only established risk is of using one whiledriving - M Maier, C Blakemore, M Koivisto, 2000
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Electromagnetic fields and precautionary policies - P. VecchiaArticle | Recommended (Should Read)
Eileen Abt, Coping with the Risk of Cancer in Children living Near Powerlines.
http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/winter/abt.htm
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Week 10: Risk regulation and New Forms of Behavioural Change (23items)
Required readings (1 items)
‘Nudging’ Healthy Lifestyles: The UK Experiments with the Behavioural Alternative toRegulation and the Market - Adam Burgess, 2012
Article | Core (Must Read)
Recommended readings (22 items)
Strings attached: untangling the ethics of incentives - Grant, Ruth Weissbourd, 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Gentle Nudges versus Hard Shoves: Solving the Sticky Norms Problem - Dan Kahan, 2000Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness - Thaler, Richard H.,Sunstein, Cass R., 2009
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Stumble, Predict, Nudge: How Behavioral Economics Informs Law and Policy - On Amir,Orly Lobel, 2008
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Predictably irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions - Dan Ariely, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read)
MINDSPACE: Influencing Behaviour through Public PolicyWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
Normative Consent and Opt-Out Organ Donation - Ben Saunders, 2010Article | Recommended (Should Read)
No 2 to No 10: taking MINDSPACE to Downing Street | BlogWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology Inquiry on BehaviourChange, Evidence Session 2 (2 November 2010). Available at: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/science-technology/behaviourchange/ucSTI021110ev1.pdf
Risk and Moralization in Everyday Life - Alan HuntChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
The sociology of health promotion: critical analyses of consumption, lifestyle, and risk -Bunton, Robin, Nettleton, Sarah, Burrows, Roger, Dawsonera, 1995
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and morality - Ericson, Richard Victor, Doyle, Aaron, c2003Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Introduction
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Embracing risk: the changing culture of insurance and responsibility - Baker, Tom, Simon,Jonathan, 2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read) | pp. 209-237.
Morality and health - Brandt, Allan M., Rozin, Paul, 1997Book
The Social Fabric at Risk: Toward the Social Transformation of Risk Analysis - J Short, 1984Article
From Dangerousness to Risk’ - Robert CastelChapter
The Rise of Risk and the Decline of Politics - S Rayner, 2007Article
The politics of risk society - Franklin, Jane, Institute for Public Policy Research, 1998 [i.e.1997]
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Governing the soul: the shaping of the private self - Rose, Nikolas S., 1990Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Powers of Freedom: Reframing Political Thought - Rose, Nikolas, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Morality and health - Brandt, Allan M., Rozin, Paul, 1997Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Manders-Huits, N.L.J.L., and Van den Hoven. J. 2008. The Person As Risk, The Person AtRisk. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference, at Ethicomp
Week 11: Risk, Media & Communication (30 items)
Required readings (1 items)
Breakwell, G, & Barnett, J. 2001. The impact of social amplification
of risk on risk communication. London: HSE. Available at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/crr_pdf/2001/crr01332.pdf
Recommended Readings: (29 items)
Parliamentary GM crops media report:http://www.parliament.uk/post/report138.pdf
Negotiating uncertainty: asteroids, risk and the media - F Mellor, 2010Article | Recommended (Should Read)
News media and food scares: the case of contaminated salmon - B Hoijer, R Lidskog, L
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Thornberg, 2006Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution - Burgess, Adam, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chapter 3 (esp pp.75-96 and 106-113)
Journalists Constructions of Passive Smoking as a Social Problem - R Malone, E Boyd, L ABero, 2000
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Mass Media Framing of Biotechnology News - Leonie A Marks, Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes,Lee Wilkins, Ludmila Zakharova, 2007
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risks of Communication: Discourses on Climate Change in Science, Politics and the Media -P Weingart, A Engels, P Pansegrau, 2000
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Science and the Media - P Weingart, 1998Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk, media, and stigma: understanding public challenges to modern science andtechnology - Flynn, J., Slovic, Paul, Kunreuther, Howard, 2001
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Researching risk and the media - J Kitzinger, 1999Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Rise and Fall of Risk Reporting - Jenny Kitzinger, Jacquie Reilly, 1997Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Towards a Better Map: Science, the Public and the Media - Ian HargreavesBook | Recommended (Should Read)
The Social Amplification of Risk: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications - ORenn, 1992
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Eleanor Singer & Phyllis M. Endreny, Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media PortrayAccidents, Diseases, Disasters and Other Hazards: http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/summer/singer.htm
William Lanouete, Reporting on Risk: Who Decides What's News? http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/summer/lanouett.htm
Peter Sandman, Mass Media and Environmental Risk: Seven Principles http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/summer/sandman.htm
Sharon Friedman, The Media, Risk Assessment and the Public: Numbers Don't Add Up http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol5/summer/friedman.htm
'Risk, Society and the Media - John Eldridge
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Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach - GGamson, A Modigliani, 1989
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Media and the Social Construction of the Environment - Hansen, 1991Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: A Public Arenas Model - S Hilgartner, C Bosk, 1988Article | Recommended (Should Read)
FOOD 'SCARES' IN THE MEDIAWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
Media Discourse and the Social Construction of Risk - R Stallings, 1990Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Mass Media and Judgements of Risk: Distinguishing Impact on Personal and SocietalLevel Judgements - T Tyler, F Cook, 1984
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk Analysis and the Construction of News, - L Wilkins, P Patterson, 1987Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Influence of the Mass Media and Interpersonal Communication Societal and PersonalRisk Judgements - C Coleman, 1993
Article
Environmental risks and the media - Allan, Stuart, Adam, Barbara, Carter, Cynthia, 2000Book
Message received: Glasgow Media Group research, 1993-1998 - Philo, Greg, 1999Book
Scaremonger of Scapegoat? The Role of the Media in the Emergence of Food as a SocialIssue - J Reilly, D Miller
Chapter
Week 12: Late Lessons and False Alarms? (32 items)
Required readings: (2 items)
Late Lessons from Early Warnings 2 Summary, available at: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/late-lessons-2
Distinguishing True Warnings about Technical Risks from False Alarms forthcoming paper2014.
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Recommended Readings: (30 items)
The precautionary principle in the 20th century: late lessons from early warnings -Harremoes, Poul, European Environment Agency, International Institute for Environment andDevelopment, WWF-UK., 2002
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
True warnings and false alarms: evaluating fears about the health risks of technology,1948-1971 - Mazur, Allan, 2004
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Flattering Consumption: The Growth of Consumer Rights and Product Safety Concerns inEurope - A Burgess, 2001
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
David Vogel, 2001, The New Politics of Risk Regulation in Europe. Available at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CARR/pdf/Disspaper3.pdf
The Hare and the Tortoise Revisited: The New Politics of Consumer and EnvironmentalRegulation in Europe - D Vogel, 2003
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Risk and reason: safety, law, and the environment - Sunstein, Cass R., 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)
House of Lords - Science and Technology - Third ReportWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
The Changing Character of Regulation: A Comparison of Europe and the United States -Ragnar Lofstedt, David Vogel, 2001
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution - Burgess, Adam, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chapter 7,
Journal of Risk Research - Volume 9, Issue 4Article | Recommended (Should Read) | special issue on the precautionary principle
Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of RiskManagement - R Diprose, 2008
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
White Paper on Chemicals Policy - Chemicals - Enterprise and IndustryWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)
The Historical Roots of Precautionary Thinking: The Cultural Ecological Critique and the‘Limits to Growth - J Hanekamp, G Vera-Navas, S Verstegen, 2005
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
True warnings and false alarms: evaluating fears about the health risks of technology,
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1948-1971 - Mazur, Allan, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Comparing Precaution in the United States and Europe - J B Wiener, M D Rogers, 2002Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Science People Can Trust - S ByersArticle | Recommended (Should Read)
Searching for safety - Wildavsky, Aaron B., Bowling Green State University, 1988Book | Recommended (Should Read)
EU, Communication from the Commission on the Precautionary Principle on the internet at:http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg24/library/pub/index_en.html
Rethinking risk and the precautionary principle - Morris, Julian, 2000Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Conclusion: Rejecting the Precautionary Principle - Aaron WildavskyChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
The Policy Implications of Differing Concepts of Risk - J Bradbury, 1989Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Interpreting the precautionary principle - O'Riordan, Timothy, Cameron, James, 1994Book | Recommended (Should Read)
May the Sheep Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide - Brian WynneChapter | Recommended (Should Read)
Science, policy, and risk: a discussion meeting held at the Royal Society on Tuesday 18March 1997 - Royal Society (Great Britain), 1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The third way: the renewal of social democracy - Giddens, Anthony, 1998Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Ecological politics in an age of risk - Beck, Ulrich, 1995Book | Recommended (Should Read)
The reinvention of politics: rethinking modernity in the global social order - Beck, Ulrich,1997
Book | Recommended (Should Read)
Rethinking Breast Cancer Risk and the Environment: The Case for the PrecautionaryPrinciple - DL Davis, 1997
Article | Recommended (Should Read)
The Precautionary Principle and the Uncertainty Paradox - M Van Asselt, E Vos, 2006Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Precautionary Regulation in Europe and the United States: A Quantitative Comparison - J K
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Hammitt, J B Wiener, B Swedlow, D Kall, Z Zhou, 2005Article | Recommended (Should Read)
Tips for Writing Your Essay (10 items)
Successful study for degrees - Barnes, Rob, 1992Book
How to study: a practical guide - Casey, Francis, 1985Book
How to write about the social sciences - Cuba, Lee J., Cocking, John, Cuba, Lee J., 1997Book
Studying for a degree in the humanities and social sciences - Dunleavy, Patrick, 1986Book
How to write essays - Lewis, Roger, National Extension College, 1999Book
The good study guide - Northedge, Andrew, 2005Book
How to think like a social scientist - Pettigrew, Thomas F., c1996Book
Argument and evidence: critical analysis for the social sciences - Phelan, Peter, Reynolds,Peter J., 1996
Book
The elements of style - Strunk, William, White, E. B., 2009Book
Critical reasoning: a practical introduction - Thomson, Anne, 2009Book
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