Global Public Health Vigilance - Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

Global Public Health Vigilance

Creating a World on Alert
Buch | Hardcover
218 Seiten
2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-95842-4 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health.

This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease, historically the focus of international disease control, was displaced by "international public health emergencies," a concept that brought new responsibilities to public health authorities, helping to shape a new project of global public health security.

Drawing on research conducted at the World Health Organization, this book analyzes the formation of a new social apparatus, global public health vigilance, for detecting, responding to and containing international public health emergencies. Between 1995 and 2005 a new form of global health surveillance was invented, international communicable disease control was securitized, and international health law was fundamentally revised.

This timely volume raises critical questions about the institutional effects of the concept of emerging infectious diseases, the role of the news media in global health surveillance, the impact of changes in international health law on public health reasoning and practice, and the reconstitution of the World Health Organization as a power beyond national sovereignty and global governance. It initiates a new research agenda for social science research on public health.

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).

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

Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-415-95842-3 / 0415958423
ISBN-13 978-0-415-95842-4 / 9780415958424
Zustand Neuware
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