Andrew Lakoff 
Unprepared [EPUB ebook] 
Global Health in a Time of Emergency

Ondersteuning

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies—from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. In
Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s Cold War civil defense to the early twenty-first century, when international health authorities carved out a global space for governing potential outbreaks. Alert systems and trigger devices now link health authorities, government officials, and vaccine manufacturers, all of whom are concerned with the possibility of a global pandemic. Funds have been devoted to cutting-edge research on pathogenic organisms, and a system of post hoc diagnosis analyzes sites of failed preparedness to find new targets for improvement. Yet, despite all these developments, the project of global health security continues to be unsettled by the prospect of surprise.

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Inhoudsopgave

Introduction
1. A Continuous State of Readiness
2. The Generic Biological Threat
3. Two Regimes of Global Health
4. Real Time Biopolitics
5. A Fragile Assemblage
6. Diagnosing Failure
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Over de auteur

Andrew Lakoff is Professor of Sociology and Communication at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry and coeditor of Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. 

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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 240 ● ISBN 9780520968417 ● Bestandsgrootte 1.3 MB ● Uitgeverij University of California Press ● Gepubliceerd 2017 ● Editie 1 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5203598 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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