Living in a World of Risk

Richard Wilson and Edmund Crouch, Living in a World of Risk: Risk/Benefit Analysis (Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1982), 218 pp., $25.00; Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic, Stephen L. Derby, and Ralph L. Keeney, Acceptable Risk (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 185 pp., $19.95; David R McCaffrey, OSHA and the Politics of Health Regulation (New York: Plenum Press, 1982), 192 pp., $24.50; Mary Douglas, and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 221 pp., $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paperback