Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Unprepared Global Health In A Time Of Emergency
Author(s): Lakoff Andrew
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520295766
Pages: 240 Pages, 1 Lineart, 3 Tables
Publication Date: 8/1/2017
Category: Public Health & Preventive Medicine