Pandemics, publics, and politics : staging responses to public health crises / Kristian Bjørkdahl, Benedicte Carlsen, editors.
2019
RA652 .P36 2019eb
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Title
Pandemics, publics, and politics : staging responses to public health crises / Kristian Bjørkdahl, Benedicte Carlsen, editors.
ISBN
9789811328022 (electronic book)
9811328021 (electronic book)
9789811328015
9811328013
9811328021 (electronic book)
9789811328015
9811328013
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 91 pages)
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RA652 .P36 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.4
Summary
Pandemics are potentially very destructive phenomena, and for that reason, they both fascinate and frighten us. And because they are shot through with uncertainty, they often become sites of contestation and conflict. This book presents research on the 2009 pandemic and other public health crises in an attempt to describe and analyze the distinctive challenges that such diseases pose today. Thanks to vaccines, more reliable provision of medical services, more effective means of communication, and a more educated public, some argue we will not see a new Black Plague - or even Spanish Flu - in our time. Today we face new challenges, however, which can both enable diseases to reach pandemic scales and affect our ability to enact an appropriate response. Those include fragmentation of media, tribalization of "knowledge regimes," the increasingly troubled status of scientific and political expertise, growing cross-continental mobility, as well as the globalization and commercialization of pandemic response systems. These distinctive complexities make the need to stage public action in response to pandemics and other public health crises a crucial problem, on which thousands of human lives hinge. This volume consists of a handful of social science and humanities studies of precisely such complexities, and thus offers a much-needed supplement to existing research on pandemics and pandemic response.-- Provided by publisher
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Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Pandemics, Publics, and Politics-Staging Responses to Public Health Crises
Chapter 2 Global Health Governance and Pandemics: Uncertainty and Institutional Decision-Making
Chapter 3 Uncertainty and Immunity in Public Communications on Pandemics
Chapter 4 Enacting Pandemics: How Health Authorities Use the Press-And Vice Versa
Chapter 5 "Disease Knows No Borders": Pandemics and the Politics of Global Health Security
Chapter 6 When Authority Goes Viral: Digital Communication and Health Expertise on pandemi.no.
Chapter 2 Global Health Governance and Pandemics: Uncertainty and Institutional Decision-Making
Chapter 3 Uncertainty and Immunity in Public Communications on Pandemics
Chapter 4 Enacting Pandemics: How Health Authorities Use the Press-And Vice Versa
Chapter 5 "Disease Knows No Borders": Pandemics and the Politics of Global Health Security
Chapter 6 When Authority Goes Viral: Digital Communication and Health Expertise on pandemi.no.