Rethinking the BSE crisis
Subtitle: a study of scientific reasoning under uncertainty
By: Louise Cummings
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789048195039; 9789048195046
Subjects: Transmission; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Science; Philosophy; Fallacies (Logic); Epidemiology; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome; Logic; Reasoning
Other titles: Rethinking the bovine spongiform encephalopathy crisis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: BSE : a leap into the unknown; title: Scientific challenge; title: Arguing through uncertainty; title: Good arguments during the BSE inquiry; title: Unraveling of an argumentative strategy; title: Unchallengable scientific consensus; title: Political and commercial interests in the BSE inquiry; title: Learning the lessons of the BSE crisis.