Sophal Ear

Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics (eBook, ePUB)

What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume, with a focus on Southeast Asia, Africa and North America, considers the intersection between disease, politics, science and culture in the global battle against pandemics, making use of case studies and interviews to examine the ways in which governments and regions handle outbreaks and pandemics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000487213
• Artikelnr.: 62751972

Autorenporträt

Dr Sophal Ear is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Global Development and a tenured Associate Professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy (Columbia University Press), co-author of The Hungry Dragon: How China's Resource Quest Is Reshaping the World (Routledge), and co-editor of the special virtual issue of Politics and the Life Sciences on Coronavirus: Politics, Economics, and Pandemics (Cambridge University Press). A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, he moved to the United States from France as a Cambodian refugee at the age of 10.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Cambodia, Indonesia and the US Naval Area Medical Research Unit 2
2 Thailand: Challenges with EID Surveillance in a Regional Leader
3 Managing Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria in the Greater Mekong Subregion
4 The West African Ebola Virus Epidemic of 2014
5 Kenya: Diagnostics versus Research in an East African Community Leader
6 Infectious Disease Surveillance on the US-Mexico Border
7 Transparency and Cooperation in Mexico's Swine Flu Outbreak
Conclusion
Bibliography