Risk watch
Subtitle: the odds of life
By: John Urquhart and Klaus Heilmann.
Contributors: Heilmann, Klaus.
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Risk-taking (Psychology); Fear; Technological innovations; Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
Description: Risk taking is the essence of life itself.  Balancing risk and 
reward is a biological, intellectual and emotional imperative.
Yet few of us devote much, if any, rational thought to the
subject – even when our own lives are at stake.  Instead, we 
tremble over newsworthy but often insignificant threats,
while blithely accepting – and even inviting – real health and 
safety risks in our daily lives.
This myth-shattering new book rigorously examines
how we, as individuals and as a society, think about dangers
to our health by exploring:
-	How we measure and express risk
-	How we distinguish high risk from low risk
-	How we cope with premature death
-	How health risks have changed since the turn of the century
-	How the media distort public perceptions of risk.
Risk watch proposes a totally new, rational and comprehensive
method for measuring health risks – a method
that will radically change the way we perceive and evaluate
risk by showing how to separate distortions from truths.
Notes: "Revised English language version of Keine Angst vor der Angst ... published March 1983 by Kindler Verlag, Munich"--Verso t.p.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction ix; title: 1: Risks then and Now 1; title: 2: Progress and Risk 21; title: 3: Measuring and Comparing Risks 29; title: 4: What We die of: One Way to Look at the Major Risks in Our Lives 53; title: 5: Prominent voluntary Hazards in Everyday Life 78; title: 6: Medical and surgical Risks 103; title: 7: food and Risk 131; title: 8: Risk-Related Codewords 152; title: 9: Life is an Experiment 176; title: Appendix A: A survey of Scales for Measuring Risk and Further Information on the Safety-degree Scale 188; title: Appendix B: American Cancer Society Questionnaire 204; title: Index 209