"Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment" is a case study of the
Alachlor Controversy of 1985 in which the Canadian Minister of
Agriculture cancelled the registration of the herbicide alachlor.
This book demonstrates the opinion that risk assessments by
scientific experts as well as ordinary citizens are guided by
dominant values held by the assessors. It examines what these
values typically are, how they work within a risk assessment, and
some implications of reconsidering risk debates as primarily
debates about values.
Throughout, the book draws the conclusion that such debates are
not primarily debates about science itself, but rather consist of
political debate among different value frameworks, different ways
of thinking about moral values, different conceptions of society,
and different attitudes toward technology and toward risk-taking
itself. The larger question in the analysis of these risk
assessments is which set of values will ultimately prevail.
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