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Epidemic Orientalism : Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease



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Autore: White Alexandre I. R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Epidemic Orientalism : Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bielefeld : , : Stanford University Press, , 2023
©2023
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 pages)
Disciplina: 614.409
Soggetto topico: Communicable diseases - Prevention - International cooperation - History
Epidemics - Prevention - International cooperation - History
Imperialism - Health aspects - History
Public health - Political aspects - History
Racism - Health aspects - History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
Soggetto non controllato: COVID-19
Disease
Epidemics
Global Health
Imperialism
Pandemic
Post-colonial theory
World Health Organization
capital
racism
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Epidemic Orientalism -- 2 The International Sanitary Conventions at a Colonial Scale -- 3 Epidemics under the WHO -- 4 The Battle to Police Disease -- 5 Epidemics, Power, and the Global Management of Disease Risk -- 6 Pricing Pandemics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two centuries, starting with International Sanitary Conferences in 1851 and culminating in the present with the International Health Regulations, which organize epidemic responses through the World Health Organization. Unlike other equity-focused global health initiatives, their mission—to establish "the maximum protections from infectious disease with the minimum effect on trade and traffic"—has remained the same since their founding. Using this as his starting point, Alexandre White reveals the Western capitalist interests, racism and xenophobia, and political power plays underpinning the regulatory efforts that came out of the project to manage the international spread of infectious disease. He examines how these regulations are formatted; how their framers conceive of epidemic spread; and the types of bodies and spaces it is suggested that these regulations map onto. Proposing a modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism, White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern epidemic disease control.
Titolo autorizzato: Epidemic Orientalism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5036-3413-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910838209203321
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