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Tables of Contents for Risk Communication and Public Health
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
List of contributors
xiii
Biographical notes
xvii
Part 1: Research perspectives: what do we know and where are the frontiers?
Understanding responses to risk: some basic findings
3
17
Peter Bennett
Public risk perceptions and risk communication
20
13
Lynn J. Frewer
Public reactions to risk: social structures, images of science, and the role of trust
33
18
Ian H. Langford
Claire Marris
Timothy O'Riordan
Public and professional perceptions of environmental and health risks
51
14
Emma Green
Simon D. Short
Raquel Duarte-Davidson
Leonard S. Levy
Public health communication and the social amplification of risks: present knowledge and future prospects
65
16
Nick Pidgeon
Karen Henwood
Bryan Maguire
Part 2: Lessons from prominent cases
The media and trust: E. coli and other cases
81
14
Hugh Pennington
The British Government's handling of risk: some reflections on the BSE/CJD crisis
95
13
Robert J. Maxwell
Experiences in risk communication
108
9
Ronan A. Lyons
Dorothy Wright
Benchmarking in government: case studies and principles
117
16
Tony Taig
Part 3: Institutional issues: some perspectives
Perception of risk-is the public probably right?
133
7
David Fisk
The recent excitement over genetically-modified foods
140
12
Derek Burke
Political risk culture: not just a communication failure
152
18
Ian E. Taylor
Consumers and risk
170
13
Sheila McKechnie
Sue Davies
Negotiating risks to public health: models for participation
183
12
Anna Coote
Jane Franklin
The identification and management of risk: opening up the process
195
12
David Coles
Part 4: Pulling the threads together
Risk communication as a decision process
207
15
Peter Bennett
David Coles
Anne McDonald
Risk communication in government and the private sector: wider observations
222
7
Tony Taig
The relationships between the media, public beliefs, and policy-making
229
12
David Miller
Sally Macintyre
Improving risk communication: scenario-based workshops
241
13
Simon French
John Maule
Learning from experience: the need for systematic evaluation methods
254
13
Simon Gerrard
Index
267