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Edited by Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, and Peter W. Huber. 457 pp. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1993. $39.95. ISBN 0-262-06156-2.

This book's goal is to provide lay readers with a discussion of "two intersecting themes: the problems of assessing subtle environmental or occupational risks, and the havoc this creates in the courtroom." In two introductory chapters, the editors give an overview of the scientific and legal perspectives on this issue. Various contributors then consider specific instances of phantom risks, defined as "cause-and-effect relationships whose very existence is unproven and perhaps unprovable."

The phantoms come in three varieties: hazards that may not exist at all (e.g., cancer caused by magnetic fields), real risks to which the public has overreacted (e.g., polychlorinated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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