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

by SATO

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400730799
• ISBN13: 9789400730793
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"