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Title Phantom risk : scientific inference and the law / edited by Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, Peter W. Huber
Edition 1st pbk. ed
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 457 pages) : illustrations
Contents Weak magnetic fields : a cancer connection? / Kenneth R. Foster -- Spermicides and birth defects / James L. Mills -- Bendectin and the language of causation / Louis Lasagna and Sheila R. Shulman -- Miscarriage and video display terminals : an update / Kenneth R. Foster -- Environmental pollution and cancer : some misconceptions / Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold -- Asbestos : the hazard, the risk, and public policy / Ralph D'Agostino, Jr., and Richard Wilson -- The human health effects of polychlorinated biphenyls / Renate D. Kimbrough -- Trichloroethylene : toxicology and epidemiology : a critical review of the literature / Rudolph J. Jaeger and Arlene L. Weiss -- Dioxin : perceptions, estimates, and measures / Michael Gough -- The Three Mile Island nuclear accident and public health consequences / George K. Tokuhata
The fallout controversy / Ralph E. Lapp -- The saga of Fernald / Bernard L. Cohen -- Trauma and cancer / Marvin M. Romsdahl -- Chemical pollutants and "multiple chemical sensitivities" / Michael I. Luster, Gary J. Rosenthal, and Dori R. Germolec -- Immunological laboratory tests : a critique of the Alcolac decision / Richard S. Cornfeld and Stuart F. Schlossman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Science and law.
Torts.
Causation.
Risk.
Risk assessment.
Environmental Exposure -- legislation & jurisprudence
Liability, Legal
Risk
Jurisprudence
Risk Assessment
torts.
risk assessment.
LAW -- Torts.
Risk assessment
Causation
Risk
Science and law
Torts
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Form Electronic book
Author Foster, Kenneth R
Bernstein, David E
Huber, Peter W. (Peter William), 1952-2021
ISBN 0585078114
9780585078113
0262273004
9780262273008