Embracing risk the changing culture of insurance and responsibility / [electronic resource] :
edited by Tom Baker & Jonathan Simon.
- Chicago, [Ill.] : University of Chicago Press, c2002.
- 1 online resource (ix, 318 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Offering an original approach to risk, insurance, and responsibility, the provocative and wide-ranging essays in 'Embracing Risk' demonstrate that risk has moved well beyond its origins in the insurance trade to become a central organizing principle of social and cultural life.