Cancer from Beef: Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence

by Alan I. Marcus

Cancer from Beef uses the DES story to explore the intersection of institutional science, government rule making, and growing skepticism in popular attitudes toward both public protection and scientific authority. Marcus concludes that DES provides a case study in the attempt to control uncertainty in our lives when neither science nor government seem effective. The DES debate thus reflects a postmodern American accommodation with doubt, moral relativism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801847001
• ISBN13: 9780801847004
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 235 Pages