The End of the French Model for Animal Health? A Sociological Analysis of the Bluetongue Vaccination Campaign (2007-2009)

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ID4901005
AutoresBoris Ollivier (Laboratoire INRA SAE 2 RiTme 65 bd de Brandebourg 94205 Ivry‐sur‐Seine France, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume53
Fascículo4
Páginas496-514
Data de publicação2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12019
OpenAlexW1895693035
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas16

This article examines the preparation and implementation in France of a vaccination campaign (2008) to protect livestock against bluetongue disease (BT) and questions the long-term stability of structural relationships in the animal health sector. Using three approaches from the sociology of risks - exogenous or endogenous nature of crisis, responsibility of expertise - we show that post-bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) reforms, by claiming a clearly separated role for each party (risk assessment, risk management, farmers' responsibility), have left the issue of relationships between actors by the wayside. We argue with the bluetongue case that such radical partitioning is unworkable. Discussing the decline of the French 'health tripod' (State, farmers, veterinarians), we emphasise that it has been idealised as a model that each party has a major interest to maintain. Our sources are based on 35 interviews, analysis of professional press and ministry of agriculture's internal notes

Agriculture · Animal health · Biology · Bovine spongiform encephalopathy · Christian ministry · Disease · Livestock · Political science · Sociology · Veterinary medicine · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Medicine · Social Sciences and Governance