Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The explosion of risks

2. Why do we panic?

3. the culture of abuse

4. A world of risky strangers

5. Who can you trust?

6. The new etiquette

7. The Politics of Fear

8. Towards a sociology of fear

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of fourteen books including Why Education isn't Educating (2010), The Politics of Fear (2007), Where have all the Intellectuals Gone? (2005), Therapy Culture (2003) and Paranoid Parenting (2001). Furedi's books offer an authoritative yet lively account of key developments in contemporary cultural life, with a particular interest in precautionary culture and risk aversion in the West. He is the UK sociologist most widely cited by the UK media and his books have been translated into eleven languages. He appears frequently on television and radio in the English speaking world and beyond and he publishes regular articles with a range of newspapers.

Reviews

Mentioned in Psychologies (main) in article by Hannah Borno, 1 March 2009