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Science 17 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5435, p. 1857
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5435.1857
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DECISION-MAKING:
Calculating the Chances

A review by John S. Evans

Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving
Daniel M. Kammen and David M. Hassenzahl
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999. 424 pp. $39.50, £23.95. ISBN 0-691-00426-9.

Kammen and Hassenzahl explore the nature and methods of risk analysis--and the relationship between science and policy--by critically examining and clearly explaining selected problems ranging from cancer susceptibility to airplane flights.
The author is at the Program in Environmental Science and Risk Management, Harvard School of Public Health, 718 Huntington Avenue, Room 211, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: jevans{at}hsph.harvard.edu

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