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dc.contributor.authorTaylor, George
dc.contributor.authorPower, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-08T14:21:49Z
dc.date.available2012-02-08T14:21:49Z
dc.date.issued2011-02
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9546815-3-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10379/2547
dc.description.abstractWith Ireland's blood supply compromised in the 1980s, the impact upon its haemophiliac community was unprecedented. Thus far, academic attention has focused on apportioning blame and identifying administrative failure: what the government knew about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Hepatitis C; and when the blood supply was compromised. Our task is to explain why the crisis emerged. We maintain it was not an issue of risk management, but risk assessment. Prior to the 1970s, decisions about risk were refracted through government channels (ministers, civil servants and medico-scientific experts, i.e. the realm of the political/legal). By the 1980s, risk assessment/management were separated and Government was predisposed to accept market decisions (the realm of the economic/legal). Here intervention is recognised as legitimate only if a risk is established and, even then, it must be proportionate. A balance must be struck between competing objectives: safety, innovation, cost, competitiveness and free trade. Crucially, this reform precluded a precautionary approach.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNUI Galwayen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
dc.subjectHepatitisen_US
dc.subjectHaemophiliaen_US
dc.subjectHIVen_US
dc.subjectIrelanden_US
dc.subjectHealth Promotionen_US
dc.titleRisk, science and blood: Politics, HIV, Hepatitis and Haemophilia in Ireland.en_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.description.peer-reviewedpeer-revieweden_US
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