Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262).

Probing the question of technology-induced risk ; Choosing and managing technology-induced risk / M. Granger Morgan -- Defining risk / Baruch Fischhoff, Stephen R. Watson, and Chris Hope -- Risk analysis : understanding "how safe is safe enough?" / Stephen L. Derby and Ralph L. Kenney -- Analyzing the daily risks of life / Richard Wilson -- Rating the risks / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Ranking possible carcinogenic hazards / Bruce N. Ames, Renae Magaw, and Lois Swirsky Gold. Technical comment : carcinogenic risk estimation / Samuel S. Epstein and Joel B. Swartz. Response to Samuel E. Epstein / Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold -- Risk, science, and democracy / William D. Ruckelshaus -- No risk is the highest risk of all / Aaron Wildavsky -- Cost benefit analysis : an ethical critique / Steven Kelman. Reply to Steven Kelman / Gerard Butters, John Calfee, and Pauline Ippolito. Application of risk assessment to food safety decision making / Joseph Rodricks and Michael R. Taylor -- Assessing risks from health hazards : an imperfect science / Dale Hattis and David Kennedy -- A quantitative estimate of leukemia mortality associated with occupational exposure to benzene / Mary C. White, Peter F. Infante, and Kenneth C. Chu -- Letter to the editor : benzene and the one-hit model / Jerry L.R. Chandler -- Letter to the editor : assessment of leukemia mortality associated with occupational exposure to benzene / Peter F. Infante, Mary C. White, and Kenneth C. Chu -- Social benefit versus technological risk / Chauncey Starr -- The application of probabilistic risk assessment techniques to energy technologies / Norman C. Rasmussen. Assessing the risk of an LNG terminal / Ralph L. Keeney, Ram B. Kulkarni, and Keshavan Nair -- The emergence of risk communication studies : social and political context / Alonzo Plough and Sheldon Krimsky -- Getting to maybe : some communications aspects of siting hazardous waste facilities / Peter M. Sandman -- Informed choice or regulated risk? : lessons from a study in radon risk communication / F. Reed Johnson [and others].