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Overview
We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? In Risk versus Risk, John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener, and their colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis marshal an impressive set of case studies which demonstrate that all too often our nation's campaign to reduce risks to our health and the environment is at war with itself.
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Meet the Author
John Graham is Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences and Director, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health.
Jonathan Baert Wiener is Perkins Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Policy & Public Policy Studies in the School of Law and the School of Environment, Duke University. He is also Director of the JD-LLM Program in International & Comparative Law, and Faculty Committee Chair, of the Nicholas Institute
Cass R. Sunstein is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Cass R. Sunstein
Preface
1. Confronting Risk Tradeoffs
John D. Graham and Jonathan Baert Wiener
2. Estrogen Therapy for Menopause
Evridiki Hatziandreu, Constance Williams, and John D. Graham
3. Clozapine Therapy for Schizophrenia
Miriam E. Adams, Howard Chang, and Howard S. Frazier
4. Licensing the Elderly Driver
Constance Williams and John D. Graham
5. Saving Gasoline and Lives
John D. Graham
6. Eating Fish
Paul D. Anderson and Jonathan Baert Wiener
7. Seeking Safe Drinking Water
Susan W. Putnam and Jonathan Baert Wiener
8. Recycling Lead
Katherine Walker and Jonathan Baert Wiener
9. Regulating Pesticides
George M. Gray and John D. Graham
10. Protecting the Global Environment
Jonathan Baert Wiener
11. Resolving Risk Tradeoffs
Jonathan Baert Wiener and John D. Graham
References
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index