Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

Global Public Health Vigilance (eBook, ePUB)

Creating a World on Alert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The invention of online techniques such as early warning outbreak detection has dramatically changed the action capacity and social organization of global infectious disease control. This book, one of the first to examine these transformations, is a stunning addition to the fields of global health, global news, surveillance, and globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135159153
• Artikelnr.: 42508055

Autorenporträt

Lorna Weir is Professor of Sociology, York University (Toronto). She specializes in health and social theory, publishing on birth (Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject, Routledge 2006), public health and sexuality. Her current research is on securitizing public health, governing synthetic biology, and sacrifice in biopolitics.

Eric Mykhalovskiy is an associate professor of sociology at York University. His research explores the social organization of health knowledges and focuses empirically on HIV/AIDS. Most recently, with Marsha Rosengarten, he co-edited "HIV/AIDS in its Third Decade," a special issue of Social Theory and Health (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Knowing Global Public Health 2. Emerging Infectious Diseases: An Active
Concept 3. Early Warning Outbreak Detection and Alert: A Technique 4. From
Infectious Disease to Public Health Emergency 5. A World on Alert:
Emergency Vigilance in Global Biopolitics 6. Concluding