Epidemics : science, governance, and social justice

Epidemics : science, governance, and social justice / edited by Sarah Dry and Melissa Leach.

Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challe...

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Other Authors: Dry, Sarah, 1974-, Leach, Melissa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
Series:Pathways to sustainability series.
Subjects:
Epidemics.
Epidemics > Social aspects.
Epidemics > Political aspects.
Social medicine.
epidemics.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
Social medicine
Epidemics > Political aspects
Epidemics
Epidemics > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Epidemic narratives
  • New rules for health? Epidemics and the international health regulations
  • Haemorrhagic fevers: narratives, politics and pathways
  • SARS, China and global health governance
  • Constructing AIDS: contesting perspectives on an evolving epidemic
  • Local practice versus exceptionalist rhetoric: case studies of HIV/AIDS programming in South Africa
  • Fighting the flu: risk, uncertainity and surveillance
  • Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: narratives of security, global health care and structural violence
  • Epidemics of obesity: narratives of blame and blame avoidance
  • Scapepigging: H1N1 influenza in Egypt
  • Towards conclusions: science, politics and social justice in epidemic accounts and responses.

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