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Tables of Contents for Embracing Risk
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
ix
Embracing Risk
1
26
PART ONE Toward a Sociology of Insurance and Risk
27
144
Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility
33
19
Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity
52
28
Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England
80
17
Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain
97
19
Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance
116
30
Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance
146
25
PART TWO Risk(s) beyond Insurance
171
132
Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies
177
32
At Risk of Madness
209
29
The Policing of Risk
238
35
The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution
273
30
Index
303