BSE : risk, science, and governance
Van Zwanenberg, PatrickAuthor
Millstone, ErikContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
This text provides an analysis of the BSE crisis and how policy-making processes were managed, and of how and why they culminated in catastrophic failure.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This text provides an analysis of the BSE crisis and how policy-making processes were managed, and of how and why they culminated in catastrophic failure.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Analysing the role of science in public policy-making -- The evolution of the UK's agriculture and food policy regimes -- A new cattle disease -- The Southwood Working Party -- Regulatory rigor mortis -- BSE policy in continental Europe -- The aftermath of 20 March 1996 -- BSE and the partial reform of food policy-making.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
Public Policy
Disease Outbreaks
Epidemiology
Prion Diseases
Social Control Policies
Cattle Diseases
Public Health
Policy
Medicine
Animal Diseases
Social Control, Formal
Central Nervous System Infections
Environment and Public Health
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Sociology
Health Care
Nervous System Diseases
Social Sciences
Health Occupations
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Central Nervous System Diseases
Diseases
Veterinary Medicine
Communicable Diseases
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences