| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pathways to sustainability series |
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Pathways to sustainability series.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 challenges for local, national and international bodies. All too often, responses can become restricted by implicit assumptions about who or what is to blame that may not capture the dynamics and uncertainties at play in the multi-scale interactions of people, animals and microbes. As a result, policies intended to |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epidemics
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Epidemics -- Social aspects
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Epidemics -- Political aspects
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Social medicine.
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Disease Outbreaks -- ethics
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Social Medicine
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Epidemics
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epidemics.
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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Social medicine
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Epidemics -- Political aspects
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Epidemics
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Epidemics -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dry, Sarah, 1974-
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Leach, Melissa
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| ISBN |
9781849776424 |
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1849776423 |
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9781849711012 |
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1849711011 |
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9781849711029 |
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184971102X |
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9781136532221 |
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1136532226 |
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