9780415958424 - Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society, Band 10) von Weir, Lorna; Mykhalovskiy, Eric (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | 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.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 260 pages. 9.10x6.00x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Describes and analyzes the transformations in global mechanisms for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks that have occurred since the mid-1990s. This book examines early warning outbreak detection, which operates electronically through the Internet to identify infectious disease outbreaks that may lead to international health emergencies. Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society. Num Pages: 230 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 3 black & white halftones, 2 black. BIC Classification: GTF; MBNS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468. . 2010. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.