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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.

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Author:   James M. Humber ,  Robert F. Almeder
Publisher:   Humana Press Inc.
Imprint:   Humana Press Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.456kg
ISBN:  

9781475763348

ISBN 10:   1475763344
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   21 March 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Quantitative Risk Assessment The Practitioner’s Viewpoint.- Statistical Approach to Quantitative Risk Assessment: Discussion of The Underlying Assumptions.- What’s Wrong With Quantitative Risk Assessment?.- Risk Assessment—Where Do We Want It To Go?.- Aspects of Quantitative Risk Assessment as Applied to Cancer.- Quantitative Risk Assessment Philosophical Perspectives.- Values, Scientific Objectivity, and Risk Analysis: Five Dilemmas.- Quantified Risk Assessment: Values In, Values Out?.- Philosophical Issues in the Scientific Basis of Quantitative Risk Analysis.- Risk and the Social Value of a Life.- Quantitative Risk Assessment and the Notion of Acceptable Risk.- Appendix—Congressional Record, HR 4192.

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