Book Details
Orange Code:59966
Paperback:184 pages
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1. Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics?2. Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics3. West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic4. Who’s worried about turkeys? How ‘organisational silos’ impede zoonotic disease surveillance5. How did international agencies perceive the avian infl uenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the ‘One World, One Health’ framework6. Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference7. The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease8. The return of the city-state: urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic9. Flu frames10. Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: the case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 200911. Why the French did not choose to panic: a dynamic analysis of the public response to the influenza pandemic
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Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity.
- Focuses on vital sociological issues raised by resurgent disease pandemics
- Detailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factors
- Contributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspective
- Bold, agenda-setting treatment of a high-profile topic
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