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18 produkter
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge
Inbunden, 2024
715 kr
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The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ‒ which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event ‒ was caught so unprepared when the crisis struck.In fact, as Andrew Lakoff …
Biosecurity Interventions
Global Health and Security in Question
Av Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J Collier
Inbunden, 2008
715 kr
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In recent years, new disease threats--such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis--have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only from …
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention
Inbunden, 2010
1384 kr
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Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace …
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention
Häftad, 2010
205 kr
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Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace …
Biosecurity Interventions
Global Health and Security in Question
Av Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J Collier
E-bok, 2008
1091 kr
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In recent years, new disease threats& mdash;such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis& mdash;have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not …
Unprepared
Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Inbunden, 2017
823 kr
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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 …
Unprepared
Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Häftad, 2017
264 kr
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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 …
Unprepared
Global Health in a Time of Emergency
E-bok, 2017
433 kr
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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. In Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s …
Pharmaceutical Reason
Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
Häftad, 2006
699 kr
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Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina (a country which boasts the …
Pharmaceutical Reason
Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
Inbunden, 2006
1593 kr
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Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina (a country which boasts the …
Government of Emergency
Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Av Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff
Inbunden, 2021
994 kr
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The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials …
Government of Emergency
Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Av Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff
Häftad, 2021
316 kr
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The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials …
Government of Emergency
Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Av Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J. Collier
E-bok, 2021
428 kr
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The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials …
Global Pharmaceuticals
Ethics, Markets, Practices
Av Adriana Petryna, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
384 kr
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In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and …
Global Pharmaceuticals
Ethics, Markets, Practices
Av Andrew Lakoff, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
558 kr
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In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and …
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge
Häftad, 2024
237 kr
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The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ‒ which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event ‒ was caught so unprepared when the crisis struck.In fact, as Andrew Lakoff …
Planning for the Wrong Pandemic
Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge
E-bok, 2024
261 kr
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The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ‒ which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event ‒ was caught so unprepared when the crisis struck. In fact, as Andrew …
Global Pharmaceuticals
Ethics, Markets, Practices
Av Adriana Petryna, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1318 kr
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In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and …
