Experimental Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

This book examines society's responses to many kinds of experimentation, focusing on both creation of and assessment of risks. As people seek new ways to make their lives safer and happier, the widespread process of experimentation claims victims. Some of these are people who directly and willingly accept the risks of experiments. By comparison, some are effectively experimental subjects in the hands of others who often may not even think of themselves as experimenting with the lives of consumers.The Experimental Society covers a wide spectrum of products and activities, including those that radiate into the environment like nuclear power, hydrofracking, and asbestos. The book spotlights prescription drugs and substances used in the most ordinary consumer products such as salt, caffeine, and BPA in sippy cups. It also discusses the testing of new ways of thinking, including those related to social organization and processes, and even the law itself. A particular concern is the case in which the subjects of experiments are unaware that the experiments are taking place.This lucidly written volume will be useful to practicing lawyers who specialize in personal injury law, and law professors who teach such subjects as torts and products liability, medicine, and science. Physicians and scientists in various branches of medicine will find it provocative, as will political scientists, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:408
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9781412857031

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Miljörätt inom Juridik
Skada, kränkningar och kompensation inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Marshall S. Shapo, Frederic P. Vose Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, USA, has studied and written about injury law for fifty years. His published work includes An Injury Law Constitution and Experimenting with the Consumer.

Recensioner i media

"This original book argues that humans are subjects in a wide variety of 'experiments.' Shapo takes an extremely broad view of human experimentation, from carefully designed and controlled randomized trials to inadvertent unplanned experiments concomitant with technological and social change... Each chapter explores in detail a few case studies, emphasizing the legal issues and processes... There are many provocative discussions of good and bad decisions, such as the Challenger launch. A short chapter on worker safety is followed by a good chapter on consumer products... Excellent details on the well-chosen case studies with compelling focus on the legal process intersecting changing scientific information and certainty. Summing Up: Recommended." - M. Gochfeld, Choice, July 2016

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction1 Varieties of Experimentation2 Major Environmental Experiments3 Established Products and Activities4 Red Flags Rising as Products Enter the Market5 Profiles of Developing Risk6 Product Images as Lenses for Experiments7 Experiments Generating Defects8 Long-Running Public Health Catastrophes9 Elements of Decision Making10 Different Kinds of Lawmaking: Experiments in the Workplace Environment11 Different Kinds of Lawmaking: Consumer Products and Other By-Products12 Methods and Structures of Responses to Experimentation13 Cultures of Risk and Experiment14 Approaches to Risky Experimentation15 Principles for DecisionConclusionPostscriptIndex

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