Phantom Risk. Scientific Inference And The Law

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publisher Place: Cambridge.Mass
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: First Edition

Description: 457 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The Only Exception Is That, The First Blank Page Is Missing. Phantom Risks Are Risks Whose Very Existence Is Unproven And Perhaps Unprovable, Yet They Raise Real Problems At The Interface Of Science And The Law. It 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.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 0262061562