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. This book addresses the question, how did we become
"unprepared?" Emerging disease has only recently come to be
understood as a problem of preparedness. Andrew Lakoff follows the
history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1960s 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 manage 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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