Risky business : communicating issues of science, risk, and public policy / edited by Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson ; foreword by Dorothy Nelkin.

New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.

xxii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Foreword : why is science writing so uncritical of science? / Dorothy Nelkin -- Introduction / Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson -- Risk perceptions as substance and symbol / Robin Gregory -- Coming to terms with the impact of communication on scientific and technological risk judgments / Sharon Dunwoody and Kurt Neuwirth -- Risk management : the public versus the technical experts / Sharon M. Friedman -- Popularization versus secularization : media coverage of health / Robert A. Logan -- The stigma of mental illness : labeling and stereotyping in the news / Russell E. Shain and Julie Phillips -- Media coverage of technology issues : Ethiopian drought of 1984, AIDS, Challenger, and Chernobyl / Everett M. Rogers and Soon Bum Chang

A cross-societal comparison of disaster news : reporting in Japan and the United States / E.L. Quarantelli and Dennis Wenger -- Organizational communication and technological risks / Phillip K. Tompkins -- The security of secrecy / David M. Rubin -- A case of need : media coverage of organ transplants / Deni Elliott -- Science as symbol : the media chills the greenhouse effect / Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson -- Disasters and the making of political careers / Sue O'Brien -- Conclusions / Lee Wilkins and Philip Patterson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-220) and index