Protecting the Public s Health During Novel Infectious Disease - Outbreak

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.

List of contents

1. Historical prelude: Kuru and the Fore people of Papua New Guinea; 2. The discovery of a new infectious agent and a new TSE; 3. The emergence of a new brain disease in cattle; 4. Assessing and communicating the human health risks posed by BSE; 5. Getting closer to the fallacies; 6. New challenges: The COVID-19 pandemic; 7. Implications; Glossary.

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.

Foreword

This Element examines the reasoning of scientists during the emergence of two novel infectious diseases (BSE in cattle and COVID-19).

Product details

• Authors: Louise Cummings, Louise (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univer Cummings, Cummings Louise
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009342636
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934263-6
• No. of pages: 70
• Series: Elements in Health Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Media Studies, Epidemiology & medical statistics, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Infectious & contagious diseases, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Disinformation and misinformation, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Human coronaviruses