The risk society and beyond : critical issues for social theory / edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon.

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

vii, 232 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction : Repositioning risk : the challenge for social theory / Barbara Adam and Joost van Loon -- Risk society or angst society? Two views of risk, consciousness and community / Alan Scott -- Risk culture / Scott Lash -- Risk, trust and scepticism in the age of the new genetics / Hilary Rose -- Nuclear risks : three problematics / Alan Irwin, Stuart Allan and Ian Welsh -- Genotechnology : three challenges to risk legitimation / Lindsay Prior, Peter Glasner and Ruth McNally -- Health and responsibility : from social change to tecnological change and vice versa / Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- Child organ stealing stories : risk, rumour and reproductive technologies / Claudia Castañeda -- Liturgies of fear : biotechnology and culture / Howard Caygill -- Virtual risks in an age of cybernetic reproduction / Joost van Loon -- Worlds in action : information, instantaneity and global futures trading / Deirdre Boden -- Discourses of risk and utopia / Ruth Levitas -- Risk society revisited : theory, politics and research programmes / Ulrich Beck.

Includes bibliographical references and index.