• DOI:10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00617.x
Corpus ID: 15792284

The 1991 Cholera Epidemic in Peru: Not a Case of Precaution Gone Awry

@article{Tickner2005The1C,
  title={The 1991 Cholera Epidemic in Peru: Not a Case of Precaution Gone Awry},
  author={J. Tickner and Tami Gouveia-Vigeant},
  journal={Wiley-Blackwell: Risk Analysis (Archive)},
  year={2005}
}

• J. Tickner, Tami Gouveia-Vigeant
• Published 2005
• Business, Medicine
• Wiley-Blackwell: Risk Analysis (Archive)

The precautionary principle calls on decisionmakers to take preventive action in light of evidence indicating that there is a potential for harm to public health and the environment, even though the nature and magnitude of harm are not fully understood scientifically. Critics of the precautionary principle frequently argue that unbridled application of the principle leads to unintended damage to health and ecosystems (risk tradeoffs) and that precautious decision making leaves us vulnerable to… Expand

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