Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides
designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of
other technological advances hold great promise of improving the
quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human
well-being. Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with
these modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern
throughout the industrialized world.
"Searching for Safety" is unique in its exposition of a theory
that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer. It also
exposes the high risk in backwardness, whether it is a result of
policy or inadvertent. The book covers a wide range, including how
the human body, as well as plants, animals, and insects, cope with
danger. Wildavsky addresses the master dilemma head on, asking
whether piling on safety measures actually improves safety. While
he agrees that society should sometimes try to prevent large harms
from occurring, he explains why such anticipatory measures are
usually inferior to a strategy of resilience -learning from error
how to bounce back in better shape. His purpose is to shift the
risk debate from passive prevention of harm to active search for
safety.
Written for the intelligent layman, the book will be of special
interest to individuals concerned with risk, technology, health,
safety, environmental protection, regulation, and analysis of
systems for making decisions.
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