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Titolo: |
Pandemics and emerging infectious diseases : the sociological agenda / / edited by Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman and Karen Staniland
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Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.1969 |
Soggetto topico: | Emerging infectious diseases - Social aspects |
Epidemiology | |
World health | |
Altri autori: |
DingwallRobert
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Note generali: | "Originally published as Volume 35, Issue 2 of The Sociology of Health & Illness"--Title page verso. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1: Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics?; Acknowledgements; References; 2: Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics; Introduction; The sociology of public health (SPH); Social determinants of population health; Disease prevention, healthy conduct and biological citizenship; Public health intelligence (PHI); Conceptualisation and actualisation of pandemics; Semantic struggles in an enlarged space of pandemic potentiality; Settling controversy - allies in the actualisation of pandemics |
PHI: sites for future researchActive concepts; Forms of knowledge; Diverse informants; Organisational initiatives; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 3: West Nile virus: The production of a public health pandemic; Foucauldian theories of power; Methodology; PHAC's production of the WNV; Surveillance; Normalisation; Exclusion; Regulation; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 4: Who's worried about turkeys? How 'organisational silos' impede zoonotic disease surveillance; Introduction; Methods; Institutional interaction and organisational culture; Priorities, jurisdictions and silos | |
Forging systemic connectionsConclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 5: How did international agencies perceive the avian influenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the 'One World, One Health' framework; The emergence of 'One World One Health'; Theoretical backgrounds and methods; Competition between the fragmented frames: 2003-2008; Technical/biomedical intervention frame; Societal intervention frame; Ecological conservation frame; The convergence on the OWOH policy framework: 2008 to the present; Functional consensus despite diverse interpretations; A double-edged policy framework | |
AcknowledgementsReferences; 6: Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference; Introduction; Materials and method; Global risks and cosmopolitisation; Avian flu: a classic and a modern risk; Asia, Vietnam and cosmopolitan modernities; Relations of definitions, relations of domination: the framing of avian flu; Phase 1: avian flu, a classic risk; Phase 2: avian flu, a modern risk; Global risk instrumentalisation: from local to international issues; A transformative cooperation for Vietnam?; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References | |
7: The politics of securing borders and the identities of diseaseThe cases; The problematic; The European Union; Protecting borders; Explaining variations in screening across diseases; Disease identities; Tuberculosis: diseased immigrants and recalcitrant patients; People with AIDS (PWA); Disease identities and the making of policy; Europe and the collective imaginary; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 8: The return of the city-state: Urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic; Introduction; Methods and map; The organisational and ideological context for pandemic planning | |
NYC as a unit of health policy and planning | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 pandemicsDetailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factorsContributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspectiveBold, agenda-sett |
Titolo autorizzato: | Pandemics and emerging infectious diseases ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-118-55393-4 |
1-118-55392-6 | |
1-118-55394-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810154903321 |
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