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Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food: Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries - Asbestos and BSE

By Hajime Sato (auth.) , Hajime Sato (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2010
ISBN
978-90-481-3027-6, 978-90-481-3028-3
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-3028-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3474478 bytes)
Series
Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries 16
Edition
1
Pages
387\390
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-27 06:27:06
general; Political Science; Sociology; Nutrition;Medicine/Public Health

Description

This book examines the policy and politics of two health risks, which have recently become prominent social issues in many countries. One is the issue of asbestos as an environmental risk to humans, and another is that of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease as an animal disease, and of its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a human food risk. Employing a set of analytical frameworks in political science, each case study explores how the issues emerged, agendas got set, alternatives were chosen, and policies were implemented. Through the analysis, it is examined how safety and public reassurance were pursued in the countries studied (Japan, the UK, France the USA, and Korea). Exploration of the successes and failures in their efforts discloses the key elements to successful health risk management.

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