The UK BSE crisis: Strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptual approaches

Eve Seguin

Science and Public Policy, 2000, vol. 27, issue 4, 293-301

Abstract: The UK media have paid much more attention to the BSE crisis than have social scientists. Yet, the BSE saga is one of the best opportunities we have to explore the link between science and politics. An attempt must therefore be made to evaluate whether satisfactory explanations of the crisis have been proposed by social scientists. The present paper is a review of the three explanations or lines of argument that can be extracted from existing studies of the BSE crisis. The strengths and weaknesses of the three lines of argument are then indicated. Finally, a new perspective for the analysis of the BSE crisis is outlined, which is rooted in the analysis of scientific discourse. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2000
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