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The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance
and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both
State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the
spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify
potential pandemics through the creation of shared reporting
platforms. Despite all the rhetoric about the importance of
infectious disease surveillance, the concept itself has received
relatively little critical attention from academics, practitioners,
and policymakers. This book asks leading contributors in the field
to engage with five key issues attached to international disease
outbreak surveillance - transparency, local engagement, practical
needs, integration, and appeal - to illuminate the political effect
of these technologies on those who use surveillance, those who
respond to surveillance, and those being monitored.
The capacity to conduct international disease outbreak surveillance
and share information about outbreaks quickly has empowered both
State and Non-State Actors to take an active role in stopping the
spread of disease by generating new technical means to identify
potential pandemics through the creation of shared reporting
platforms. Despite all the rhetoric about the importance of
infectious disease surveillance, the concept itself has received
relatively little critical attention from academics, practitioners,
and policymakers. This book asks leading contributors in the field
to engage with five key issues attached to international disease
outbreak surveillance - transparency, local engagement, practical
needs, integration, and appeal - to illuminate the political effect
of these technologies on those who use surveillance, those who
respond to surveillance, and those being monitored.
Through an in-depth examination of the interactions between the
South African government and the international AIDS control regime,
Jeremy Youde examines not only the emergence of an epistemic
community but also the development of a counter-epistemic community
offering fundamentally different understandings of AIDS and
radically different policy prescriptions. In addition, individuals
have become influential in the crafting of the South African
government's AIDS policies, despite universal condemnation from the
international scientific community. This study highlights the
relevance and importance of Africa to international affairs. The
actions of African states call into question many of our basic
assumptions and challenge us to refine our analytical framework. It
is ideally suited to scholars interested in African studies,
international organizations, global governance and infectious
diseases.
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