Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases
The Sociological Agenda
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Beschreibung
The resurgence of infectious disease as a threat to public health in our globalized world presents social as well as biomedical challenges. This volume explores the sociological issues raised by pandemics that are as inevitable as they are unpredictable. How, for example, do we detect and identify new or resurgent diseases? How should public health authorities manage their responses? How does media coverage of pandemics affect public perceptions, and how can we generate awareness without panic? The contributors to this volume analyze case studies ranging from the scare over 'avian flu' that raised crucial questions of public interest, to the outbreak of H1N1 'swine flu' in 2009 and the West Nile virus, spread by a mosquito whose habitat is expanding in a warming world. Respected authors also tackle overarching issues of methodology and international governance, such as the imperative to coordinate supranational strategy in combating infections able to span the world as stowaways on passenger aircraft.
Bringing together perspectives from North America, Europe and Asia, the book sets a bold sociological agenda informed by a keen awareness of the technical limitations of epidemiology, by newly forged links between public health and national security, and by geopolitical issues of development and social equity. It is a compelling intervention in an urgent policy debate.
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 pandemics
* Detailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factors
* Contributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspective
* Bold, agenda-setting treatment of a high-profile topic
Autor*in
Robert Dingwall
Themen in »Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases«
Infectious Disease Infektionskrankheit Infektionskrankheiten Medical Science Medizin Pandemie Sociology Sociology of Globalization Sociology of Health & Illness Soziologie Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit Soziologie der Globalisierung