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Protecting the public's health during novel infectious disease outbreaks
1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color).
"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"--
Historical prelude : Kuru and the Fore people of Papua New Guinea -- The discovery of a new infectious agent and a new TSE -- The emergence of a new brain disease in cattle -- Assessing and communicating the human health risks posed by BSE -- Getting closer to the fallacies -- New challenges : The COVID-19 pandemic -- Implications.
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024