December 9th, 2005 | RESEARCH
The management of health risks related to scientific and technological innovations has been the focus of a heated debate for a few years now. In some cases, like the campaigns against the use of GMOs in agriculture, this debate has degenerated into a political and social dispute. Even risk analysis studies, which appeared in the 1970s in the fields of nuclear physics and engineering and were later developed by social sciences as well, have given completely different, and at times contradictory, interpretations that, in turn, have given rise to bitter controversies.
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Giancarlo Sturloni, AuthorCitation
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Identifier: 1824-2049
Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 3
Number: 4
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