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Unprepared
- Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Engelsk Hardback
Unprepared
- Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780520295759
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520295757
Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2017
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2017
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