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Quantitative Risk Assessment

Biomedical Ethics Reviews · 1986

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. James M. Humber

    1. Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Robert F. Almeder

    1. Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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Part of the book series: Biomedical Ethics Reviews (BER)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder
      Pages 1-5

  3. Quantitative Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Statistical Approach to Quantitative Risk Assessment

      • Kenneth A. Busch, Theodore J. Meinhardt, Mary A. Ballew
      Pages 9-55

    3. What’s Wrong With Quantitative Risk Assessment?

      • Dale Hattis, John A. Smith Jr.
      Pages 57-105

    4. Risk Assessment—Where Do We Want It To Go?

      • Marvin A. Schneiderman
      Pages 107-128

    5. Aspects of Quantitative Risk Assessment as Applied to Cancer

      • Bruce C. Allen, Kenny S. Crump
      Pages 129-146

  4. Quantitative Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Values, Scientific Objectivity, and Risk Analysis

      • Kristin Shrader-Frechette
      Pages 149-170

    3. Quantified Risk Assessment

      • Mary Gibson
      Pages 171-203

    4. Philosophical Issues in the Scientific Basis of Quantitative Risk Analyses

      • Paul Humphreys
      Pages 205-223

    5. Risk and the Social Value of a Life

      • Nicholas Rescher
      Pages 225-237

    6. Quantitative Risk Assessment and the Notion of Acceptable Risk

      • James Humber, Robert Almeder
      Pages 239-262

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 263-278
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About this book

The National Science Foundation, The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Center for Technology and Humanities at Georgia State University sponsored a two-day national conference on Moral Issues and Public Policy Issues in the Use of the Method of Quantitative Risk Assessment ( QRA) on September 26 and 27, 1985, in Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the conference was to promote discussion among practicing risk assessors, senior government health officials extensively involved in the practice of QRA, and moral philosophers familiar with the method. The conference was motivated by the disturbing fact that distinguished scientists ostensibly employing the same method of quantitative risk assessment to the same substances conclude to widely varying and mutually exclusive assessments of safety, depending on which of the various assumptions they employ when using the method. In short, the conference was motivated by widespread concern over the fact that QRA often yields results that are quite controversial and frequently contested by some who, in professedly using the same method, manage to arrive at significantly different estimates of risk.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantitative Risk Assessment

  • Book Subtitle: Biomedical Ethics Reviews · 1986

  • Editors: James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

  • Series Title: Biomedical Ethics Reviews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-656-0

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-056-5Published: 15 May 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-6334-8Published: 21 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-656-0Published: 15 May 1987

  • Series ISSN: 0742-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 278

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Biomedicine general

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