Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food

1. The Policies and Politics of Health Risk Management
Hajime Sato

2. Development of Asbestos Regulation in Japan: Incremental Policy Making and Crisis Politics
Hajime Sato

3. Emergence of Asbestos-related Health Issues and Development of Regulatory Policy in the UK
Andrew Webster, Conor M. W. Douglas, Hajime Sato

4. Development of Asbestos Regulation in France: Policy Making Under Uncertainty and Precautionary Principle
Bernard Reber, Hajime Sato

5. Asbestos in the United States
Rose Campbell, James S. Webber, Hajime Sato

6. Risk Perception and Management of the Asbestos Industry in Korea: Rise and Fall of the Industry and Health Issues
Domyung Paek, Hajime Sato

7. Policy and Politics of BSE-related Human Disease Prevention in Japan: In Pursuit of Food Safety and Public Reassurance
Hajime Sato

8. BSE in the United Kingdom
Andrew Webster, Conor M.W. Douglas, Hajime Sato

9. Governing Uncertain Threats: Lessons from the Mad Cow Saga in France
Pierre-Benoit Joly, Hajime Sato

10. Policy and Politics of BSE in the United States
Rose Campbell, Hajime Sato

11. Conclusions: Policies, Politics, and Communications of Health Risks: In Search of Safety and Public Reassurance
Hajime Sato

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Political Science, Sociology, Nutrition, Environmental Management, Environmental Health