Overview
Uniquely describes the distinctive preconditions for pandemic preparedness and response in our time
Provides accessibly written and succinct perspectives on a still under-explored aspect of public health preparedness
Valuable resource for researchers in medical humanities, medical anthropology, sociology of health and medicine, as well as researchers within public health studies
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book presents research on the 2009 pandemic and other public health crises in an attempt to describe and analyze the distinctive challenges that such diseases pose today. Thanks to vaccines, more reliable provision of medical services, more effective means of communication, and a more educated public, some argue we will not see a new Black Plague – or even Spanish Flu – in our time. Today we face new challenges, however, which can both enable diseases to reach pandemic scales and affect our ability to enact an appropriate response. Those include fragmentation of media, tribalization of “knowledge regimes,” the increasingly troubled status of scientific and political expertise, growing cross-continental mobility, as well as the globalization and commercialization of pandemic response systems. These distinctive complexities make the need to stage public action in response to pandemics and other public health crises a crucial problem, on which thousands of human lives hinge.
This volume consists of a handful of social science and humanities studies of precisely such complexities, and thus offers a much-needed supplement to existing research on pandemics and pandemic response.
Reviews
“An insightful and approachable reference for scholars, researchers, and teachers who are interested in the study of pandemics and pandemic communication. And meanwhile it serves as an excellent reference for master and doctoral students.” (Gaotong Li and Gaoxin Li, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 14, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Benedicte Carlsen is research leader and research professor at the Uni Research Rokkan Centre, in Bergen, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pandemics, Publics, and Politics
Book Subtitle: Staging Responses to Public Health Crises
Editors: Kristian Bjørkdahl, Benedicte Carlsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2802-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2801-5Published: 20 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2802-2Published: 03 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 91
Topics: Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Medicine/Public Health, general