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| International Standard Book Number |
9789048195046 |
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978-90-481-9504-6 |
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R1 |
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| Classification number |
610 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 264 #1 - |
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Dordrecht : |
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Springer Netherlands : |
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Imprint: Springer, |
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2010. |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cummings, Louise. |
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author. |
| 245 10 - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE |
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| Title |
Rethinking the BSE Crisis |
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[electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title |
A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Louise Cummings. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
XV, 242p. |
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online resource. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. BSE – A LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies -- 1.3 The BSE Knowledge Problem -- Notes -- 2 THE SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGE -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Current Paradigm in Epidemiology -- 2.3 Early Epidemiological Investigations -- Notes -- 3 ARGUING THROUGH UNCERTAINTY -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Presumption and Science -- 3.3 Presumption and Uncertainty Management -- 3.4 Presumption, Reasoning and Fallacies -- Notes -- 4 GOOD ARGUMENTS DURING THE BSE INQUIRY -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Early Years: 1986 to 1989 -- 4.3 Summary -- Notes -- 5 THE UNRAVELLING OF AN ARGUMENTATIVE STRATEGY -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Middle Years: 1989 to 1994 -- 5.3 Summary -- Notes -- 6 AN UNCHALLENGEABLE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Final Years: 1994-1996 -- 6.3 Summary -- Notes -- 7 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL INTERESTS IN THE BSE INQUIRY -- 7.1 Introduction.-7.2 Reasoning and Non-Scientific Interests in the BSE Inquiry -- 7.3 Summary -- Notes -- 8 LEARNING THE LESSONS OF THE BSE CRISIS -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 A Model of Reasoning in Scientific Inquiry -- 8.3 The Model, Risk Analysis and Public Health Science -- 8.4 Summary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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In 1986, the emergence of a novel brain disease in British cattle presented a unique challenge to scientists. How that challenge was addressed has been the subject of a public inquiry and numerous academic studies conducted to date. However, none of these investigations has sought to examine the reasoning of scientists during this critical period in the public health of the UK. Using concepts and techniques in informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory, this study reconstructs and evaluates the reasoning of scientists in the ten-year period between 1986 and 1996. Specifically, a form of presumptive reasoning is described in which extensive use is made of arguments traditionally identified as informal fallacies. In the context of the adverse epistemic conditions that confronted scientists during the BSE epidemic, these arguments were anything but fallacious, serving instead to confer a number of epistemic gains upon scientific inquiry. This book argues for a closer integration of philosophy with public health science, an integration that is exemplified by the case of scientific reasoning during the BSE affair. It will therefore be of interest to advanced students, academics, researchers and professionals in the areas of public health science and epidemiology, as well as philosophical disciplines such as informal logic, argumentation and fallacy theory and epistemology. |
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Medicine. |
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Genetic epistemology. |
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Logic. |
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Science |
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Philosophy. |
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Epidemiology. |
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Biomedicine. |
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Medicine/Public Health, general. |
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Logic. |
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Epidemiology. |
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Epistemology. |
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Philosophy of Science. |
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SpringerLink (Online service) |
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Springer eBooks |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Display text |
Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number |
9789048195039 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9504-6 |
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