Book ID: CBB434578273

Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency (2017)

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Lakoff, Andrew (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 240 pages
Language: English

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. In Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s 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 are concerned with 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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Authors & Contributors
Pienaar, Kinar
Laurie Garrett
de Waal, Alex
Webb, James L. A., Jr.
Starr, Paul
Richards, Paul
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Medicine and politics
Medicine and society
Epidemiology
Medicine and government
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
China
United Kingdom
Sierra Leone
Republic of Liberia
Botswana
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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