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Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases : the Sociological Agenda.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2013.
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| Colección: | Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.