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- catalog abstract ""After World War II agricultural college laboratories discovered in diethylstilbestrol (DES) a growth-promoting hormone of potentially wide commercial use in the cattle industry. In the postwar period of high prosperity and public confidence in science, government approval came quickly. Mass production began in 1954, and the promotional efforts of cattle feed manufacturers soon convinced farmers of the drug's growth-enhancement - and profit-boosting - powers." "Yet gradually, writes Alan I Marcus, other scientists began to suspect links between DES-produced beef and cancer in humans. In Cancer from Beef Marcus traces these developments, as DES emerged as a cause celebre - a source of "expert" factionalism and subject of various attempts to establish "safe" public policy. Marcus shows how DES figured in the enactment of three major pieces of federal regulatory legislation and how the DES controversy led to the establishment of new kinds of risk-assessment models in human health. Fears of cancer in beef, Marcus argues, played a prominent role in the rise of the American consumer movement." "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 the DES story 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, and the rueful calculus of cost and benefit."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b5762861.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""After World War II agricultural college laboratories discovered in diethylstilbestrol (DES) a growth-promoting hormone of potentially wide commercial use in the cattle industry. In the postwar period of high prosperity and public confidence in science, government approval came quickly. Mass production began in 1954, and the promotional efforts of cattle feed manufacturers soon convinced farmers of the drug's growth-enhancement - and profit-boosting - powers." "Yet gradually, writes Alan I Marcus, other scientists began to suspect links between DES-produced beef and cancer in humans. In Cancer from Beef Marcus traces these developments, as DES emerged as a cause celebre - a source of "expert" factionalism and subject of various attempts to establish "safe" public policy. Marcus shows how DES figured in the enactment of three major pieces of federal regulatory legislation and how the DES controversy led to the establishment of new kinds of risk-assessment models in human health. Fears of cancer in beef, Marcus argues, played a prominent role in the rise of the American consumer movement." "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 the DES story 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, and the rueful calculus of cost and benefit."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.".
- catalog description "Science -- Partners in progress -- Cracks in the facade -- Government -- Regulation as opposition -- Monitors and monitoring -- Society -- Hearts, not minds -- Entitle and victimize -- New synthesis.".
- catalog extent "x, 235 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Cancer from beef.".
- catalog identifier "0801847001 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cancer from beef.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Cancer from beef.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "1994 D-616".
- catalog subject "615.9/54 20".
- catalog subject "Animal Feed adverse effects United States.".
- catalog subject "Diethylstilbestrol Carcinogenicity.".
- catalog subject "Diethylstilbestrol adverse effects United States.".
- catalog subject "Diethylstilbestrol contraindications.".
- catalog subject "Feed additives Toxicology.".
- catalog subject "Food Additives adverse effects United States.".
- catalog subject "Food Contamination United States.".
- catalog subject "Food Inspection United States History.".
- catalog subject "Food Inspection history United States.".
- catalog subject "Food Inspection history".
- catalog subject "Food Toxicology".
- catalog subject "Meat Contamination.".
- catalog subject "Meat analysis United States.".
- catalog subject "Meat inspection United States History.".
- catalog subject "Meat standards.".
- catalog subject "Neoplasms chemically induced United States.".
- catalog subject "RA1270.F4 M37 1994".
- catalog subject "United States".
- catalog subject "WA 701 M322c 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Science -- Partners in progress -- Cracks in the facade -- Government -- Regulation as opposition -- Monitors and monitoring -- Society -- Hearts, not minds -- Entitle and victimize -- New synthesis.".
- catalog title "Cancer from beef : DES, federal food regulation, and consumer confidence / Alan I Marcus.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".