Pandemic Surveillance

"Since future pandemics will undoubtedly occur, it is essential that we establish trustworthy institutions to conduct public health surveillance. Hopefully Lyons insights will help shape the hard conversations that lie ahead...By integrating some of the core insights from privacy theory, data justice, and care ethics, he creates a novel conceptual toolkit thats a solid theoretical starting point for critically analyzing pandemic surveillance." Evan Selinger, LA Review of Books "This is a timely contribution that highlights the global amplification of surveillance in the pandemic age and recognises its likely long-term consequences." LSE Review of Books "Pandemic Surveillance provides a much-needed overview of how the surveillance landscape has evolved and a synoptic vantage point from which to guide further analysis...it is a timely intervention, setting out key issues and raising important warnings about the pandemics surveillance legacy." Surveillance & Society journal David Lyon, in his excellent new book, 'Pandemic Surveillance,' might say that public health surveillance, despite its temporary pandemic utility, is here to stay. Although 'Pandemic Surveillance' leaves the reader wanting more detail about how to fix a nuanced, complex, multifaceted problem addressed in the majority of the book, Lyon offers us the intellectual scaffolding to consider how fear can lead to the erosion of important human interests. Lawfare Pandemic Surveillance is well-written, has clear prose, and is well structured. It will surely resonate with those who have experienced COVID-19. That is, almost everyone. All in all, this reader found Pandemic Surveillance well worth the read and then some. It is an important book, teasing out several ethical and moral dilemmas and issues. National Library of Medicine

David Lyon is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Law and Former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queens University, Canada.

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Defining Moments Chapter 2: Disease-Driven Surveillance Chapter 3: Domestic Targets Chapter 4: Data Sees All? Chapter 5: Disadvantage and the Triage Chapter 6: Democracy and Power Chapter 7: Doorway to Hope Notes Index