Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases

The Sociological Agenda

Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman, Karen Staniland, Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman, Karen Staniland

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781118553718
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781118553930
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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 contents

• Cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Notes on contributors
• 1: Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics?
• 2: Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics
• 3: West Nile virus: The production of a public health pandemic
• 4: Who's worried about turkeys? How ‘organisational silos’ impede zoonotic disease surveillance
• 5: How did international agencies perceive the avian influenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the ‘One World, One Health’ framework
• 6: Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference
• 7: The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease
• 8: The return of the city-state: Urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic
• 9: The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus in New York City
• 10: Using model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics
• 11: Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public–private partnerships in collective risk preparation
• 12: ‘If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once’: gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics
• 13: Flu frames
• 14: Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: the case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 2009
• 15: Why the French did not choose to panic: a dynamic analysis of the public response to the influenza pandemic
• Index