Worst-Case ScenariosHarvard University Press, 2009 M05 15 - 352 pages Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. How can we steer a path between willful inaction and reckless overreaction? |
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... expected value " of various courses of action . Sometimes science enables us to identify both outcomes and probabilities within a sharply restricted range . Public health officials might have reason to believe , for example , that the ...
... expected to have on human and animal life ; but only moral evaluation of those effects is needed to enable us to decide what , exactly , should be done in response . In offering guidance for handling hard problems , I emphasize the goal ...
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