Full Description
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
Contents
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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
