Living with Risk
British Medical Association Board of Science
Nothing in life is safe. People assess risks and make decisions about them constantly - travel, eating, sport and health care. The BMA has produced this book of facts aout risk because risk touches every single aspect of health and welfare.
Buy this book at Amazon- Year
- 1987
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Risk assessmentHealth and safetyDecision-making
Awards
- Royal Society Science Book PrizeWon(1988)
If you liked Living with Risk, you could also like these
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
0 wins · 7 score
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
James Le Fanu, M.D.
1 win · 8 score
Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body
Jo Marchant
0 wins · 3 score
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande
0 wins · 4 score
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
Rose Anne Kenny
0 wins · 3 score
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
0 wins · 3 score
Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health
Deborah Cohen
0 wins · 3 score
As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S.
Hans Zinsser
1 win · 12 score
Clearing the Air
Tim Smedley
0 wins · 3 score
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter
1 win · 8 score
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Florence Williams
1 win · 8 score
Deaths of Man
Edwin S. Shneidman
0 wins · 4 score
Cancer: The Wayward Cell; its origins, nature, and treatment
Victor Richards, M.D.,
0 wins · 4 score
Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years
McGeorge Bundy
0 wins · 8 score
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
John Diamond
0 wins · 4 score
