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This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making and shows how its use and misuse has shaped policy makers' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a range of countries.

MEDICAL / Health Policy. --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Risk management --- Political planning. --- Government policy.

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"One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States' food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration and oversight have remained essentially the same for more than a century, with the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 continuing to frame national policy despite dramatic changes in production, processing, and distribution throughout the twentieth century. In Food We Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the history of food safety policy in the United States, analyzing critical moments in food safety history from Upton Sinclair's publication of The Jungle to Congress's passage of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. With five case studies of significant food safety crises ranging from the 1959 chemical contamination of cranberries to the 2009 outbreak of salmonella in peanut butter, In Food We Trust contextualizes a changing food regulatory regime and explains how federal agencies are fundamentally limited in their power to safeguard the food supply. "--

MEDICAL / Health Policy. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National. --- Food adulteration and inspection --- Analysis of food --- Food --- Food, Pure --- Food inspection --- Inspection of food --- Pure food --- Adulterations --- Consumer protection --- Public health --- Sanitary chemistry --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Adulteration --- Inspection

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In the past ten years, we have seen great changes in the ways government organizations and media respond to and report on emerging global epidemics. The first outbreak to garner such attention was SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). In Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic, Huiling Ding uses SARS to explore how various cultures and communities made sense of the epidemic and communicated about it. She also investigates the way knowledge production and legitimation operate in global epidemics, the roles that professionals and professional communicators, as well as individual citizens,

MEDICAL / Health Policy. --- MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. --- Epidemics --- World health --- Communication in public health. --- SARS (Disease) --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Global health --- International health --- Public health --- Medical geography --- Public health communication --- Acute respiratory syndrome, Severe --- Respiratory syndrome, Severe acute --- Severe acute respiratory syndrome --- Coronavirus infections --- Respiratory infections --- Syndromes --- Prevention. --- Forecasting. --- Outbreaks --- International cooperation --- Pandemics