1st Edition

The Experimental Society

Edited By Marshall S. Shapo Copyright 2017
408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface

Introduction

1 Varieties of Experimentation

2 Major Environmental Experiments

3 Established Products and Activities

4 Red Flags Rising as Products Enter the Market

5 Profiles of Developing Risk

6 Product Images as Lenses for Experiments

7 Experiments Generating Defects

8 Long-Running Public Health Catastrophes

9 Elements of Decision Making

10 Different Kinds of Lawmaking: Experiments in the Workplace Environment

11 Different Kinds of Lawmaking: Consumer Products and Other By-Products

12 Methods and Structures of Responses to Experimentation

13 Cultures of Risk and Experiment

14 Approaches to Risky Experimentation

15 Principles for Decision

Conclusion

Postscript

Index

Biography

Marshall S. Shapo