Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases (eBook, ePUB)

The Sociological Agenda
Redaktion: Dingwall, Robert; Staniland, Karen; Hoffman, Lily M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118553930
• Artikelnr.: 39041892

Autorenporträt

Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is a widely published author and editor in the fields of medical sociology, law and society, and science and technology. A former UK government adviser on ethical aspects of national pandemic planning, and consultant to Roche Pharmaceuticals, he co-edited the Handbook of Qualitative Health Research (2010) and was editor of the four-volume Qualitative Health Research (2008). Lily M. Hoffman is Associate Professor of Sociology at City College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, USA, where she directs the MA program in Sociology. A specialist on urban governance issues, she is a former chairperson of the Urban and Community section of the American Sociological Association. Prof Hoffman co-edited Cities and Visitors: Regulating People, Markets and City Space (2003), and is the author of The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning (1989). Karen Staniland is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Salford, UK, and holds a PhD in sociology. Her research focuses on sociological and ethnographic studies of healthcare work, applied to improving the quality of care. In addition to co-editing The Nurse Mentor and Reviewer Update Book (2010) and Clinical Skills: The Essence of Caring (2009), she has written open-learning materials on pandemic influenza for healthcare professionals.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors vii 1 Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics? 1
Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman and Karen Staniland 2 Public health
intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics 8 Martin French and
Eric Mykhalovskiy 3 West Nile virus: the production of a public health
pandemic 21 Maya K. Gislason 4 Who's worried about turkeys? How
'organisational silos' impede zoonotic disease surveillance 33 Colin
Jerolmack 5 How did international agencies perceive the avian infl uenza
problem? The adoption and manufacture of the 'One World, One Health'
framework 46 Yu-Ju Chien 6 Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from
emergence to interference 59 Muriel Figuié 7 The politics of securing
borders and the identities of disease 72 Rosemary C.R. Taylor 8 The return
of the city-state: urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic 85
Lily M. Hoffman 9 The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus
in New York City 98 Sabrina McCormick and Kristoffer Whitney 10 Using
model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics 110 Erika Mansnerus 11
Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public-private partnerships in
collective risk preparation 122 Véronique Steyer and Claude Gilbert 12 'If
you have a soul, you will volunteer at once': gendered expectations of duty
to care during pandemics 134 Rebecca Godderis and Kate Rossiter 13 Flu
frames 139 Karen Staniland and Greg Smith 14 Attention to the media and
worry over becoming infected: the case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of
2009 153 Gustavo S. Mesch, Kent P. Schwirian and Tanya Kolobov 15 Why the
French did not choose to panic: a dynamic analysis of the public response
to the infl uenza pandemic 160 William Sherlaw and Jocelyn Raude Index 172