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Pandemics and emerging infectious diseases : the sociological agenda / edited by Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman and Karen Staniland.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sociology of health and illness monograph seriesPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118553930 (ePub)
  • 1118553934 (ePub)
  • 9781118553916 (MobiPocket)
  • 1118553918 (MobiPocket)
  • 9781118553947 ( Adobe PDF)
  • 1118553942 ( Adobe PDF)
  • 9781118553923
  • 1118553926
Uniform titles:
  • Sociology of Health & Illness.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pandemics and emerging infectious diseasesDDC classification:
  • 362.1969 23
LOC classification:
  • RA643
Online resources:
Contents:
Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Notes on contributors; 1: Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics?; Acknowledgements; 2: Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics; Introduction; The sociology of public health (SPH); Conceptualisation and actualisation of pandemics; PHI: sites for future research; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 3: West Nile virus: The production of a public health pandemic; Foucauldian theories of power; Methodology; PHAC's production of the WNV; Conclusion; Acknowledgements
4: Who's worried about turkeys? How 'organisational silos' impede zoonotic disease surveillanceIntroduction; Methods; Institutional interaction and organisational culture; Priorities, jurisdictions and silos; Forging systemic connections; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 5: How did international agencies perceive the avian influenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the 'One World, One Health' framework; The emergence of 'One World One Health'; Theoretical backgrounds and methods; Competition between the fragmented frames: 2003-2008
The convergence on the OWOH policy framework: 2008 to the presentFunctional consensus despite diverse interpretations; A double-edged policy framework; Acknowledgements; 6: Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference; Introduction; Materials and method; Global risks and cosmopolitisation; Avian flu: a classic and a modern risk; Asia, Vietnam and cosmopolitan modernities; Relations of definitions, relations of domination: the framing of avian flu; Global risk instrumentalisation: from local to international issues; A transformative cooperation for Vietnam?
ConclusionAcknowledgements; 7: The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease; The cases; The problematic; The European Union; Protecting borders; Explaining variations in screening across diseases; Disease identities; Disease identities and the making of policy; Europe and the collective imaginary; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 8: The return of the city-state: Urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic; Introduction; The organisational and ideological context for pandemic planning; The event: H1N1 in NYC -- spring and fall 2009
All-hazards emergency preparedness and pandemic responseImplications for health governance; Acknowledgements; 9: The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus in New York City; Introduction; Methods; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 10: Using model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics; Introduction; Modelling pandemics: How do models tell their stories?; Accommodating uncertainties in modelled narratives of pandemics; Towards narratives of governance; Acknowledgements; 11: Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public-private partnerships in collective risk preparation
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"Originally published as Volume 35, Issue 2 of The Sociology of Health & Illness"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Notes on contributors; 1: Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics?; Acknowledgements; 2: Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics; Introduction; The sociology of public health (SPH); Conceptualisation and actualisation of pandemics; PHI: sites for future research; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 3: West Nile virus: The production of a public health pandemic; Foucauldian theories of power; Methodology; PHAC's production of the WNV; Conclusion; Acknowledgements

4: Who's worried about turkeys? How 'organisational silos' impede zoonotic disease surveillanceIntroduction; Methods; Institutional interaction and organisational culture; Priorities, jurisdictions and silos; Forging systemic connections; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 5: How did international agencies perceive the avian influenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the 'One World, One Health' framework; The emergence of 'One World One Health'; Theoretical backgrounds and methods; Competition between the fragmented frames: 2003-2008

The convergence on the OWOH policy framework: 2008 to the presentFunctional consensus despite diverse interpretations; A double-edged policy framework; Acknowledgements; 6: Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference; Introduction; Materials and method; Global risks and cosmopolitisation; Avian flu: a classic and a modern risk; Asia, Vietnam and cosmopolitan modernities; Relations of definitions, relations of domination: the framing of avian flu; Global risk instrumentalisation: from local to international issues; A transformative cooperation for Vietnam?

ConclusionAcknowledgements; 7: The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease; The cases; The problematic; The European Union; Protecting borders; Explaining variations in screening across diseases; Disease identities; Disease identities and the making of policy; Europe and the collective imaginary; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 8: The return of the city-state: Urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic; Introduction; The organisational and ideological context for pandemic planning; The event: H1N1 in NYC -- spring and fall 2009

All-hazards emergency preparedness and pandemic responseImplications for health governance; Acknowledgements; 9: The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus in New York City; Introduction; Methods; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 10: Using model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics; Introduction; Modelling pandemics: How do models tell their stories?; Accommodating uncertainties in modelled narratives of pandemics; Towards narratives of governance; Acknowledgements; 11: Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public-private partnerships in collective risk preparation

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