@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt6wrfbm.14, ISBN = {9781442615724}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt6wrfbm.14}, abstract = {The Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada has been held up as a model for how public inquiries can effect meaningful policy change. Indeed, the inquiry has been largely credited with transforming the blood system, divesting the Canadian Red Cross Services of much of its authority to collect and distribute blood and blood products. Moreover, some of its key policy recommendations – that the idea of the precautionary principle should guide decision-making in areas of health-related risk and that all victims of tainted blood be compensated, regardless of when they were infected – were followed, albeit, in}, author = {MICHAEL ORSINI}, booktitle = {Commissions of Inquiry and Policy Change: A Comparative Analysis}, pages = {172--192}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Manufacturing Civil Society?: How the Krever Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada Shaped Collective Action and Policy Change}, year = {2014} }