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Global Public Health Vigilance - Creating a World on Alert

English · Paperback / Softback

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Innovationen entstehen im Kontext interaktiver Lernprozesse systemisch vernetzter Akteure. Im Zentrum strukturell und institutionell eingebetteter Innovationsnetzwerke, die an der Generierung und Diffusion von Innovationen beteiligt sind, stehen private Wirtschaftsunternehmen. Sie kooperieren vorrangig mit öffentlichen und privaten Forschungseinrichtungen, Bildungs- und Ausbildungseinrichtungen sowie mit Finanzdienstleistern. Historisch betrachtet sind Innovationssysteme zunächst auf nationalstaatlicher Ebene entstanden. Die Globalisierung führt jedoch zur Ausdifferenzierung lokaler, regionaler und supranationaler Arrangements. Der Sammelband ist in drei Blöcke gegliedert. Der erste Block enthält deutsche Übersetzungen von Grundlagentexten des Innovationssysteme-Ansatzes. Im zweiten Block werden einzelne theoretische Aspekte vertiefend analysiert. Der dritte Block enthält Studien zur Ausdifferenzierung des deutschen Innovationssystems.

List of contents

1. Knowing Global Public Health 2. Emerging Infectious Diseases: An Active Concept 3. Early Warning Outbreak Detection and Alert: A Technique 4. From Infectious Disease to Public Health Emergency 5. A World on Alert: Emergency Vigilance in Global Biopolitics 6. Concluding

About the author










Lorna Weir is Professor of Sociology, York University (Toronto). She specializes in health and social theory, publishing on birth (Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject, Routledge 2006), public health and sexuality. Her current research is on securitizing public health, governing synthetic biology, and sacrifice in biopolitics.

Eric Mykhalovskiy is an associate professor of sociology at York University. His research explores the social organization of health knowledges and focuses empirically on HIV/AIDS. Most recently, with Marsha Rosengarten, he co-edited "HIV/AIDS in its Third Decade," a special issue of Social Theory and Health (2009).


Summary

The invention of online techniques such as early warning outbreak detection has dramatically changed the action capacity and social organization of global infectious disease control. This book, one of the first to examine these transformations, is a stunning addition to the fields of global health, global news, surveillance, and globalization.

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