Bse Risk, Science, and Governance

Name: Bse Risk, Science, and Governance
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ISBN: 9780198525813

ISBN-10: 0198525818

ISBN-13: 9780198525813

Edition: 2004

Authors: Patrick van Zwanenberg, Erik Millstone

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This book provides a lucid and compelling analysis of the BSE crisis and how policy-making processes were managed, and of how and why they culminated in catastrophic failure. It is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the relationship between science and politics in BSE policy-making. The book re-assesses the conclusions of the Phillips enquiry into the UK government's handling of the BSE epidemic as well as extending and supplementing the analysis. The book evaluates emerging public health policy changes in the light of the experience with the BSE crisis. The ways in which risks, from challenges such as BSE, GM crops, mobile phone masts and global warming, used to be assessed and…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/23/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English




Introduction



Analysing the role of science in public policy-making



The evolution of UK's agriculture and food policy regimes



A new cattle disease



The Soutwood 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



Summary and conclusions



Bibliography



Index