{"product_id":"the-shape-of-risk-9781764681223","title":"The Shape of Risk","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laur\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Dr Gilles Laur\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Dr Gilles Laur\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethics \u0026amp; Professional Responsibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines a defining paradox of modern life: despite unprecedented gains in safety, longevity, and technological control over uncertainty, contemporary societies have become\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eless tolerant of risk and more anxious about its residual presence. It argues that risk has not disappeared but transformed-from an accepted condition of survival in earlier eras into a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoralised and politicised phenomenon shaped by expectations of preventability, institutional responsibility, and technological promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than treating risk as a purely statistical problem, the book reframes it as a cultural, ethical, and psychological construct embedded in relationships between individuals, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einstitutions, and generations. It explores how social media amplifies rare harms, how modern medicine struggles to reconcile autonomy with genuine understanding, and how the shift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom inevitability to expectation has reshaped public responses to uncertainty, error, and suffering. Across domains such as healthcare, finance, law, and public policy, it shows how\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe demand for perfect safety erodes resilience and distorts judgment. Ultimately, the book calls for a restoration of meaning to risk-not by rejecting science or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprogress, but by recognising that uncertainty is inseparable from human life. It asks how societies can live responsibly with vulnerability in an age that promises control yet cannot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeliminate unpredictability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dr Gilles Laur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892017676439,"sku":"9781764681223","price":6839.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781764681223.webp?v=1781185475","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-shape-of-risk-9781764681223","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}