TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cummings,Louise
TI  - Protecting the public's health during novel infectious disease outbreaks
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in health communication,
SN  - 9781009342667 (ebook)
AV  - RC111 .C86 2024
U1  - 616.9 23/eng/20240528
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Communicable diseases
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Sep 2024); Open Access; 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
N2  - This Element examines two prominent public health crises - 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. These arguments, which include the argument from ignorance, the argument from authority, and circular argument, are particularly well adapted to the type of uncertainty that surrounds the emergence of novel infectious diseases. By bridging gaps in knowledge, these arguments can facilitate reasoning when evidence about these diseases is limited and the need to take action is urgent. The Element charts a public health journey beginning in the 1950s with a disease called kuru, then examines the response to the emergence of BSE in 1986 and extends to the present day with the COVID-19 pandemic. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009342667
ER  -