Overview
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 an attempt to describe and analyze the distinctive challenges that such diseases pose today. Thanks to vaccines, more reliable provision of medical services, more effective means of communication, and a more educated public, some argue we will not see a new Black Plague – or even Spanish Flu – in our time. Today we face new challenges, however, which can both enable diseases to reach pandemic scales and affect our ability to enact an appropriate response. Those include fragmentation of media, tribalization of “knowledge regimes,” the increasingly troubled status of scientific and political expertise, growing cross-continental mobility, as well as theglobalization and commercialization of pandemic response systems. These distinctive complexities make the need to stage public action in response to pandemics and other public health crises a crucial problem, on which thousands of human lives hinge. This volume consists of a handful of social science and humanities studies of precisely such complexities, and thus offers a much-needed supplement to existing research on pandemics and pandemic response.
Full Product Details
Author: Kristian Bjørkdahl ,
Benedicte Carlsen
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9789811328015
ISBN 10: 9811328013
Pages: 91
Publication Date: 20 November 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
An insightful and approachable reference for scholars, researchers, and teachers who are interested in the study of pandemics and pandemic communication. And meanwhile it serves as an excellent reference for master and doctoral students. (Gaotong Li and Gaoxin Li, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 14, 2020)
“An insightful and approachable reference for scholars, researchers, and teachers who are interested in the study of pandemics and pandemic communication. And meanwhile it serves as an excellent reference for master and doctoral students.” (Gaotong Li and Gaoxin Li, International Journal of Communication, Vol. 14, 2020)
Author Information
Kristian Bjørkdahl is senior researcher at Uni Research Rokkan Centre, in Bergen, Norway. Benedicte Carlsen is research leader and research professor at the Uni Research Rokkan Centre, in Bergen, Norway.
