Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food (eBook)
XII, 387 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-90-481-3028-3 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Aphorisms 7
Preface 8
Acknowledgements 9
Contents 10
Part I Introduction 12
1 The Policies and Politics of Health Risk Management 13
Part II Management of environmental risk: Cases of asbestos 37
2 Development of Asbestos Regulation in Japan: Incremental Policy Making and Crisis Politics 38
3 Emergence of Asbestos-related Health Issues and Development of Regulatory Policy in the UK 71
4 Development of Asbestos Regulation in France: Policy Making Under Uncertainty and Precautionary Principle 109
5 Asbestos in the United States 135
6 Risk Perception and Management of the Asbestos Industry in Korea: Rise and Fall of the Industry and Health Issues 175
Part III Management of food risk: Cases of BSE-related human risk management 189
7 Policy and Politics of BSE-related Human Disease Prevention in Japan: In Pursuit of Food Safety and Public Reassurance 190
8 BSE in the United Kingdom 227
9 Governing Uncertain Threats: Lessons from the Mad Cow Saga in France 272
10 Policy and Politics of BSE in the United States 321
Part IV Conclusions 343
11 Conclusions: Policies, Politics, and Communications of Health Risks: In Search of Safety and Public Reassurance 344
List of the Project Members 380
Index 384
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.10.2009 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries |
| Zusatzinfo | XII, 387 p. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | amines • Asbestos • BSE • Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease • Development • Environment • food risk • Food Safety • health policy • health politics • health risk management • international comparative study • management of health risks • Policy • Political Science • Politics • public health risks • sustainability |
| ISBN-10 | 90-481-3028-X / 904813028X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-3028-3 / 9789048130283 |
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