Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food : Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries -- Asbestos and BSE - Sato, Hajime; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
The Policies and Politics of Health Risk Management -- Management of environmental risk: Cases of asbestos -- Development of Asbestos Regulation in Japan: Incremental Policy Making and Crisis Politics -- Emergence of Asbestos-related Health Issues and Development of Regulatory Policy in the UK -- Development of Asbestos Regulation in France: Policy Making Under Uncertainty and Precautionary Principle -- Asbestos in the United States -- Risk Perception and Management of the Asbestos Industry in Korea: Rise and Fall of the Industry and Health Issues -- Management of food risk: Cases of BSE-related human risk management -- Policy and Politics of BSE-related Human Disease Prevention in Japan: In Pursuit of Food Safety and Public Reassurance -- BSE in the United Kingdom -- Governing Uncertain Threats: Lessons from the Mad Cow Saga in France -- Policy and Politics of BSE in the United States -- Conclusions -- Conclusions: Policies, Politics, and Communications of Health Risks: In Search of Safety and Public Reassurance.
Keywords: Medicine; Political science; Sociology; Nutrition .; Environmental management; Environmental health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Political Science; Sociology, general; Nutrition; Environmental Management; Environmental Health