Doctoral Dissertation Research: Governing Foodborne Disease in a Changing World

近年来，食源性疾病暴发和相关产品召回已成为主要的社会政治问题。这一问题的治理需要异质、广泛和分布的机构参与者之间的协调，他们利用各种技术手段和工具试图将病原体排除在食物之外。这篇论文详细介绍了食源性疾病是如何治理在当代美国。本研究采用定性STS方法，包括组织民族志、深度访谈和文献分析，重点关注机构参与者在发现和管理风险以及标准化方法方面面临的挑战。食源性病原体暴发的话题是一个公众关注的重要政策问题，涉及到我们的国家之一。美国最大的经济部门是食品系统。研究结果将与联邦和州公共卫生和监管官员进行交流，以促进机构行为者之间更好的理解和沟通。考虑到公众对食品安全的广泛关注，除了学术受众外，研究结果的一些出版物将针对决策者和消费者。

Foodborne disease outbreaks and associated product recalls have become major sociopolitical problems in recent years. Governance of this problem requires coordination amongst a heterogeneous, extensive, and distributed set of institutional actors who utilize a variety of technical means and tools to try to keep pathogens out of food. This dissertation details how foodborne disease is governed in the contemporary United States. Using qualitative STS methods, including organizational ethnography, in-depth interviewing, and document analysis, this study focuses on the challenges institutional actors grapple with in detecting and managing risk, and standardizing methods.The topic of foodborne pathogen outbreaks is an important policy problem of public concern that touches on one of our nation?s largest economic sectors, the food system. Results of the research will be communicated with federal and state public health and regulatory officials to promote better understanding and improved communication between institutional actors. In addition to academic audiences, some publications resulting from the research will be aimed at policy-makers and consumers given the wide public concern about food safety.