Reporting environmental cancer risks

Author

Samantha Ann Richter

Date of Award

6-1986

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Communication

Major Professor

June Adamson

Abstract

This thesis was written with the idea in mind of preparing a "how-to" guide for newspaper journalists who must write about scientific information. Therefore, several portions of the thesis (the final sections of Chapters 3, 4 and 5) offer specific suggestions and instructions for reporting cancer risk information, i.e. how—to translate cancer risk numbers into lay-langauage. Other sections of the thesis present 1) a general overveiw of cancer risk research (Chapter 3) , and 2) two academic investigations that substantiate the need for better cancer risk communication (the opening sections of Chapters 4 and 5)

Recommended Citation

Richter, Samantha Ann, "Reporting environmental cancer risks. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1986.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/13787