Foster Kenneth Editors (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Third printing. As new in like dust jacket.

First edition Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Well illustrated.

457 Seiten, 0262061562 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 880 Groß 8°, Original-Leinen mit Original-Schutzumschlag, gutes Exemplar.

Condition: gut. 1993. Phantom Risk. Scientific Inference and the Law. In englischer Sprache. pages.

3rd Printing. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, x,457 pp Contains 17 papers .Contents: A Scientific Perspective; A Legal Perspective; Phantom (Or Not So Phantom) Risks; K.R. Foster "Weak Magnetic Fields: A Cancer Connection?"; J.L. Mills "Spermicides & Birth Defects"; L.Lasagna & S.R. Shulman "Benedictin & the Language of Causation"; K.R. Foster "Miscariage & Video Display Terminals. An Update"; The Legal Context: Just a Little Bit of Poison; E.N. Ames & L.S. Gold "Environmental Pollution & Cancer: Some Misconceptions"; R. D'Agostino, Jr & R. Wilson " Asbestos: The Hazard, the Risk, & Public Policy"; R.D. Kimbrough "The Human Health Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls"; R.J. Jaeger &A. Weiss "Tricloroethylene: Toxicology & Epidemiology: A Critical Review of the Literature"; M. Gough "Diooxin: Perceptions, Estimates & Measures"; G.K. Tokuhata "The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident & Public Health Consequneces"; R.E: Plapp "The Fallout Controversy"; B.L. Cohen "The Saga of Fernald"; Medical Controversy: M.M. Romsdahl "Trauma & Cancer"; M.I. Luster; et al: "Chemical Pollutants & 'Multiple Chemical Sensitivities'"; R.S. Cornfeld & S.F. Schlossman "Immunological Laboratory Tests: A Critique of the Alcolac Decision"; Conclusions. Phantom Risk: A Problem at the Interface of Science & the Law. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. …

orig.cloth. 24x16cm, x,457 pp "Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps umprovable, yet they raise real problems at the interface of science and the law. "Phantom Risk" surveys a dozen scientific issues that have led to public controversy and litigation - among them, miscarriage from the use of video display terminals, birth defects in children whose mothers used the drug Bendectin, and cancer from low-intensity magnetic fields, and from airborne asbestos. It presents the scientific evidence behind these and other issues and summarizes the resulting litigation. Focusing on the great disparity between the scientific evidence that is sufficient to arouse public fears and that needed to establish a hazard or its absence, these original contributions probe the problem of scientific ambiguity in risk assessment, and the mayhem this creates in the courtroom. Although the authors are clearly optimistic about the use of science of detect and evaluate risks, they recognize the difficulty of inferring cause-and- effect relationships from epidemiological (observational) evidence and of inferring risks to humans from high-dose animal experiments, the two major sources of evidence. The final chapter reviews the exceptionally difficult problem of how the legal impact of disputes about phantom risks can be reduced" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper. …