Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility Book

Acknowledgments List of Contributors
1. Embracing Risk Tom Baker and Jonathan Simon Part One: Toward a Sociology of Insurance and Risk
2 Risk, Insurance, and the Social Construction of Responsibility Tom Baker
3 Beyond Moral Hazard: Insurance as Moral Opportunity Deborah Stone
4 Embracing Fatality through Life Insurance in Eighteenth-Century England Geoffrey Clark
5 Imagining Insurance: Risk, Thrift, and Life Insurance in Britain Pat O'Malley
6 Insuring More, Ensuring Less: The Costs and Benefits of Private Regulation through Insurance Carol A. Heimer
7 Rhetoric of Risk and the Redistribution of Social Insurance Martha McCluskey Part Two: Risk(s) beyond Insurance
8 Taking Risks: Extreme Sports and the Embrace of Risk in Advanced Liberal Societies Jonathan Simon
9 At Risk of Madness Nikolas Rose
10 The Policing of Risk Richard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty
11 The Return of Descartes's Malicious Demon: An Outline of a Philosophy of Precaution Francois Ewald (translated by Stephen Utz)
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