Rethinking the BSE crisis: A study of scientific reasoning under uncertainty

Rethinking the BSE Crisis: A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-242

  Cummings, Louise ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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