Embracing Risk - The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility

AcknowledgmentsList of Contributors1. Embracing RiskTom Baker and Jonathan SimonPart One: Toward a Sociology of Insurance and Risk2 Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of ResponsibilityTom Baker3 Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral OpportunityDeborah Stone4 Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century EnglandGeoffrey Clark5 Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in BritainPat O'Malley6 Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through InsuranceCarol A. Heimer7 Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social InsuranceMartha McCluskeyPart Two: Risk(s) beyond Insurance8 Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal SocietiesJonathan Simon9 At Risk of MadnessNikolas Rose10 The Policing of RiskRichard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty11 The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of PrecautionFrancois Ewald (translated by Stephen Utz)Index

Summary

'Embracing risk' offers an original approach to risk, insurance and responsibility, the provocative and wide-ranging essays demonstrate that risk has moved well beyond its origins in the insurance trade to become a central organizing principle of social and cultural life.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Baker
• Assisted by: Tom Baker (Editor), Baker Tom (Editor), Jonathan Simon (Editor), Professor Jonathan Simon (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2002
• EAN: 9780226035192
• ISBN: 978-0-226-03519-2
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 482 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, LAW / Insurance, Insurance Law, Insurance & actuarial studies, Insurance and actuarial studies