Sudeepa Abeysinghe

Pandemics, Science and Policy

H1N1 and the World Health Organisation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO's account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain risks can affect policy and action on the global level.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Knowledge, Policy and Governance
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-49997-7
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781349499977
• ISBN-10: 1349499978
• Artikelnr.: 45076340

Autorenporträt

Sudeepa Abeysinghe is a Lecturer in Global Health Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Narrating the Nature of H1N1 3. Risk and Scientific Uncertainty 4. Categorising H1N1 5. Vaccines, Institutions and Pandemic Management 6. Contestation and the Council of Europe 7. Globalisation and the Global Public Health Paradigm 8. Conclusion

Rezensionen

"Tightly argued from sociological theory, the book, part of the 'Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy' series, will appeal to sociologists of global health and global health policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (T. P. Gariepy, Choice, Vol. 53 (6), February, 2016)