Risk, science, and politics : regulating toxic substances in Canada and the United States / Kathryn Harrison and George Hoberg.
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Montreal ; Buffalo :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- Policy making amid scientific uncertainty
- Cancer risk assessment : concepts and controversies
- Between science and politics : assessing the risks of dioxin
- Forbidden fruit : regulating the pesticides alachlor and alar
- Paternalism vs consumer choice : regulation of saccharin in Canada and the United States (with Colleen Rohde)
- Political insulation : the rise and fall of urea-formaldehyde foam
- Acceptable risks? Regulating asbestos in Canada and the United States (with Gregory Hein)
- The perils of paternalism : controlling radon exposure in Canadian and U.S. homes
- Conclusion : risk, science, and public policy.