Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is a widely published author and editor in the fields of medical sociology, law and society, and science and technology. A former UK government adviser on ethical aspects of national pandemic planning, and consultant to Roche Pharmaceuticals, he co-edited the Handbook of Qualitative Health Research (2010) and was editor of the four-volume Qualitative Health Research (2008).Lily M. Hoffman is Associate Professor of Sociology at City College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, USA, where she directs the MA program in Sociology. A specialist on urban governance issues, she is a former chairperson of the Urban and Community section of the American Sociological Association. Prof Hoffman co-edited Cities and Visitors: Regulating People, Markets and City Space (2003), and is the author of The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning (1989).Karen Staniland is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Salford, UK, and holds a PhD in sociology. Her research focuses on sociological and ethnographic studies of healthcare work, applied to improving the quality of care. In addition to co-editing The Nurse Mentor and Reviewer Update Book (2010) and Clinical Skills: The Essence of Caring (2009), she has written open-learning materials on pandemic influenza for healthcare professionals.

“Overall, I feel that this book does an excellent job of providing an accessible yet sophisticated collection of studies on a hitherto understudied topic in the sociology of health and illness. I am hopeful that this volume will encourage further scholarship into the sociology of pandemics, which will itself become an established area in its own right.”  (Sociology of Health & Illness, 1 July 2015)

• Notes on contributors vii1 Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics? 1Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman and Karen Staniland2 Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics 8Martin French and Eric Mykhalovskiy3 West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic 21Maya K. Gislason4 Who’s worried about turkeys? How ‘organisational silos’ impede zoonotic disease surveillance 33Colin Jerolmack5 How did international agencies perceive the avian infl uenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the ‘One World, One Health’ framework 46Yu-Ju Chien6 Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference 59Muriel Figuié7 The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease 72Rosemary C.R. Taylor8 The return of the city-state: urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic 85Lily M. Hoffman9 The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus in New York City 98Sabrina McCormick and Kristoffer Whitney10 Using model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics 110Erika Mansnerus11 Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public–private partnerships in collective risk preparation 122Véronique Steyer and Claude Gilbert12 ‘If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once’: gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics 134Rebecca Godderis and Kate Rossiter13 Flu frames 139Karen Staniland and Greg Smith14 Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: the case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 2009 153Gustavo S. Mesch, Kent P. Schwirian and Tanya Kolobov15 Why the French did not choose to panic: a dynamic analysis of the public response to the infl uenza pandemic 160William Sherlaw and Jocelyn RaudeIndex 172