Robert Dingwall & Lily M. Hoffman 
Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases [PDF ebook] 
The Sociological Agenda

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

Table of Content

Notes on contributors vii

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 Mc Cormick 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

About the author

Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is a widely published author and editor in the fields of medical sociology, law and society, and science and technology. A former UK government adviser on ethical aspects of national pandemic planning, and consultant to Roche Pharmaceuticals, he co-edited the Handbook of Qualitative Health Research (2010) and was editor of the four-volume Qualitative Health Research (2008).

Lily M. Hoffman is Associate Professor of Sociology at City College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, USA, where she directs the MA program in Sociology. A specialist on urban governance issues, she is a former chairperson of the Urban and Community section of the American Sociological Association. Prof Hoffman co-edited Cities and Visitors: Regulating People, Markets and City Space (2003), and is the author of The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning (1989).

Karen Staniland is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Salford, UK, and holds a Ph D in sociology. Her research focuses on sociological and ethnographic studies of healthcare work, applied to improving the quality of care. In addition to co-editing The Nurse Mentor and Reviewer Update Book (2010) and Clinical Skills: The Essence of Caring (2009), she has written open-learning materials on pandemic influenza for healthcare professionals.