
Embracing Risk
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- 1. Embracing Risk
- Part One: Toward a Sociology of Insurance and Risk
- 2. Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility
- 3. Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity
- 4. Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England
- 5. Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain
- 6. Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance
- 7. Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance
- Part Two: Risk(s) beyond Insurance
- 8. Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies
- 9. At Risk of Madness
- 10. The Policing of Risk
- 11. The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution
- Index
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