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• Foreword(p. vii)
• Preface(p. xi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Introduction: Assessing Toxic Substances Through a Glass Darkly(p. 3)
• 1 The Scientific Background(p. 12)
• 2 Scientific Evidence in the Tort Law(p. 49)
• 3 Joint Causation, Torts, and Administrative Law in Environmental Health Protections(p. 83)
• 4 Scientific Procedures in Regulatory Agencies(p. 103)
• 5 Epistemic and Moral Justification(p. 152)
• Notes(p. 179)
• Appendix A Uncertainties in Carcinogen Risk Assessments(p. 221)
• Bibliography(p. 231)
• Index(p. 243)

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CHOICE Review

Cranor (Univ. of California, Riverside) provides a thorough rethinking of the relationships among science, law, and ethics in the regulation of toxic substances. As a philosophy professor who has studied law and served as a congressional aide, the author is uniquely qualified to examine these issues. He exposes the normative presuppositions that are at the basis of scientific risk assessments. Rather than concluding that such assessments are therefore "subjective" or "biased," he shows how they can be performed in ways that are consistent with sound public policy. The author discusses such subjects as predicting human health risks from animal studies, normative implications of scientific uncertainty, the role of scientific evidence in both tort and administrative law, the problem of joint causation, and issues of epistemic and moral justification. In addition to developing his own view, the author provides a wealth of historical information about how risk has been managed in US society. Highly recommended both for academics who study risk and for professionals who perform and implement risk analyses. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; professional. D. Jamieson; University of Colorado at Boulder