Risk assessment and cost-benefit analyses: in the public interest?

نویسنده

  • J O Wiener
چکیده

'Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH; 2Istituto di Ginecologia e Ostetricia, Universita di Torino, Turin, Italy; 3Constultant Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen's Medical Centre, Clifton Bullevard, Nottingham, NG7 2UH; 4The Health Centre, Torrington Park, London N12 9SS; 'University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, Windeyer Building, Cleveland Street, London WIP 6DB, UK.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

دوره 101  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1993