Risk and public imagination: Mediated risk perception as imaginative moral judgement

The Ethics of Technological Risk

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 202-219

  Coeckelbergh, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 78651365998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849772990     Document Type: Chapter

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