Risk Communication and Public Health
Author: Peter Bennett
Controversies about risk to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or "lifestyle" risks such as drinking. To those trying to manage or regulate risks, public reactions sometimes seem bizarre. To the public, the behaviour of those supposedly "in charge" can seem no less odd. Trust is currently at a premium. This new paperback edition of Risk Communication and Public Health brings together a wide variety of perspectives on risk communication, from the health professions, academia, campaigning organizations, government and its advisory committees, and independent consultancies and think tanks. It should be of interest not only to those involved in risk assessment or communication but to anyone interested in the role of science and the media in the political process, and how one bit of "the system" is responding to demands for greater openness and participation. While each chapter is self-contained, the discussion moves progressively through: an introduction to risk communication as a topic of research; studies of prominent cases and the lessons to be drawn from them; contributions to the wider debate about procedures, power, and institutions; and proposals for promoting "good practice" in risk communication, in Government, the Health Service and elsewhere.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| List of contributors | ||
| Biographical notes | ||
| Pt. 1 | Research perspectives: what do we know and where are the frontiers? | |
| 1 | Understanding responses to risk: some basic findings | 3 |
| 2 | Public risk perceptions and risk communication | 20 |
| 3 | Public reactions to risk: social structures, images of science, and the role of trust | 33 |
| 4 | Public and professional perceptions of environmental and health risks | 51 |
| 5 | Public health communication and the social amplification of risks: present knowledge and future prospects | 65 |
| Pt. 2 | Lessons from prominent cases | |
| 6 | The media and trust: E. coli and other cases | 81 |
| 7 | The British Government's handling of risk: some reflections on the BSE/CJD crisis | 95 |
| 8 | Experiences in risk communication | 108 |
| 9 | Benchmarking in government: case studies and principles | 117 |
| Pt. 3 | Institutional issues: some perspectives | |
| 10 | Perception of risk - is the public probably right? | 133 |
| 11 | The recent excitement over genetically-modified foods | 140 |
| 12 | Political risk culture: not just a communication failure | 152 |
| 13 | Consumers and risk | 170 |
| 14 | Negotiating risks to public health: models for participation | 183 |
| 15 | The identification and management of risk: opening up the process | 195 |
| Pt. 4 | Pulling the threads together | |
| 16 | Risk communication as a decision process | 207 |
| 17 | Risk communication in government and the private sector: wider observations | 222 |
| 18 | The relationships between the media, public beliefs, and policy-making | 229 |
| 19 | Improving risk communication: scenario-based workshops | 241 |
| 20 | Learning from experience: the need for systematic evaluation methods | 254 |
| Index | 267 |
The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy
Author: John E Kwoka
The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 4/e, examines the critical role of economic analysis in recent antitrust case decisions and policy. The book consists of economic studies of twenty of the most significant antitrust cases of recent years, fourteen of them new to this edition and six updated from the third edition. These cases include alleged anticompetitive practices by Microsoft, Intel, and American Airlines; mergers-proposed or consummated-by AOL and TimeWarner, GE and Honeywell, MCI WorldCom and Sprint, and BP Amoco and ARCO; and other competitive issues such as bid rigging on school milk contracts, professional sports league practices, prescription drug pricing, and vertical restraints by manufacturers in regard to distributors. New overview essays precede the four sections of the book: Horizontal Structure, Horizontal Practices, Vertical and Related Market Issues, and Network Issues.
Commissioned and edited by John E. Kwoka and Lawrence J. White, the case studies are written by prominent economists who participated in the proceedings. These economists were responsible for helping to formulate the economic issues, undertake the necessary economic research, and offer the economic arguments in court. As a result, they are uniquely qualified to describe and analyze the cases. Fully updated with the most current examples, this volume provides detailed and comprehensive insight into the central role that is now played and will continue to be played by economics and economists in the antitrust process. The Antitrust Revolution, 4/e, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate classes in industrial organization, government policy, andantitrust/regulation law and economics. It is also a useful reference book for lawyers and economists--both academics and practitioners--who are interested in the types of economic analyses that have been applied in recent antitrust cases.
A companion website is now available at oup.com/antitrustrevolution. New to the fourth edition, the site features cases from the previous three editions.
No comments:
Post a Comment