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Haworth, Lawrence Lindley was born on December 14, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Lawrence Lindley and Ruth Ethyl (Johnson) Haworth.
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Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment is a case study of the Alachlor Controversy of 1985 in which the Canadian Minister of Agriculture cancelled the registration of the herbicide alachlor. This book demonstrates the opinion that risk assessments by scientific experts as well as ordinary citizens are guided by dominant values held by the assessors. It examines what these values typically are, how they work within a risk assessment, and some implications of reconsidering risk debates as primarily debates about values. Throughout, the book draws the conclusion that such debates are not primarily debates about science itself, but rather consist of political debate among different value frameworks, different ways of thinking about moral values, different conceptions of society, and different attitudes toward technology and toward risk-taking itself. The larger question in the analysis of these risk assessments is which set of values will ultimately prevail.
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Haworth, Lawrence Lindley was born on December 14, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Lawrence Lindley and Ruth Ethyl (Johnson) Haworth.
Bachelor with highest distinction, Rollins College, 1949; Master of Arts, University of Illinois, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy (University fellow), University of Illinois, 1952.
Assistant professor, U. Alabama, 1952-1954; assistant dean, U. Alabama, 1953-1954; assistant professor, Purdue University, 1954-1959; associate professor, Purdue University, 1959-1965; professor philosophy, U. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1965-1996; distinguished professor emeritus, U. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, since 1996; director Center for Society, Technology and Values, U. Waterloo, 1984-1986; department chairman philosophy, associate dean graduate studies, associate dean computing and research, U. Waterloo, 1967-1970, 88-89.
( Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment is a case study o...)
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Served with Army of the United States, 1945-1946. Fellow Royal Society of Canada. Member Canadian Philosophical Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Children: Lawrence Lindley III, Ruth Ellis.