True Warnings and False Alarms about Technology, 1948-1971 (RFF Press)
Publisher: RFF Press
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781891853555
Subjects: Environmental monitoring; Impact of science & technology on society; Public health & preventive medicine; Risk assessment; Technology & Industrial Arts; History; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Science / Environmental Science; Health risk assessment; 20th century
First sentence: Cries of alarm are raised so often over new technological risks that journalists, politicians, and the public have thrown up their collective hands in frustration over their inability to distinguish real hazards from false alarms.