Pandemics, Publics, and Politics Staging Responses to Public Health Crises /

Pandemics are potentially very destructive phenomena, and for that reason, they both fascinate and frighten us. And because they are shot through with uncertainty, they often become sites of contestation and conflict. This book presents research on the 2009 pandemic and other public health crises in...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bjørkdahl, Kristian (Editor), Carlsen, Benedicte (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Medical anthropology.
Medical sciences.
Medical Sociology.
Medical Anthropology.
Health Sciences.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2 Global Health Governance and Pandemics: Uncertainty and Institutional Decision-Making
  • CHAPTER 3 Uncertainty and Immunity in Public Communications on Pandemics
  • CHAPTER 4 Enacting Pandemics: How Health Authorities Use the Press - and Vice Versa
  • CHAPTER 5 "Disease Knows No Borders": Pandemics and the Politics of Global Health Security
  • CHAPTER 6 When Authority Goes Viral: Digital Communication and Health Expertise on pandemi.no.

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