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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

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

Sato, Hajime

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Series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, Book 16

Medical ReferenceChemistryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9400730799
ISBN13: 9789400730793
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 14 2012
Pages: 387
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 encephalitis (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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