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Protecting the public's health during novel infectious disease outbreaks /

"This Element examines the emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in British cattle and the COVID-19 pandemic. It contends that a group of arguments called the informal fallacies functioned as cognitive heuristics and facilitated public health reasoning during both crises. This tit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cummings, Louise (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Series:Elements in health communication.
Subjects:
Risk assessment.
Health Communication
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control
Public Health Practice
Risk Assessment
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Heuristics
Évaluation du risque.
risk assessment.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"This Element examines the emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in British cattle and the COVID-19 pandemic. It contends that a group of arguments called the informal fallacies functioned as cognitive heuristics and facilitated public health reasoning during both crises. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781009342667
1009342665
DOI:10.1017/9781009342667