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Global Public Health Vigilance - Creating a World on Alert (Hardcover)
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Global Public Health Vigilance - Creating a World on Alert (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
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Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to
investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities
imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This
book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during
which infectious disease, historically the focus of international
disease control, was displaced by "international public health
emergencies," a concept that brought new responsibilities to public
health authorities, helping to shape a new project of global public
health security. Drawing on research conducted at the World Health
Organization, this book analyzes the formation of a new social
apparatus, global public health vigilance, for detecting,
responding to and containing international public health
emergencies. Between 1995 and 2005 a new form of global health
surveillance was invented, international communicable disease
control was securitized, and international health law was
fundamentally revised. This timely volume raises critical questions
about the institutional effects of the concept of emerging
infectious diseases, the role of the news media in global health
surveillance, the impact of changes in international health law on
public health reasoning and practice, and the reconstitution of the
World Health Organization as a power beyond national sovereignty
and global governance. It initiates a new research agenda for
social science research on public health.
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