Pandemics and Intellectual Discourse: Political Perspectives

The book takes a unique approach by focusing on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives-accounts of the causes and appropriate responses to outbreaks- about epidemics at the global, national and local level. . This book aims to bring the focus back to these marginal populations to reveal the often unintended consequences of current policy responses to epidemics.

The threat of infectious diseases has increased with globalization, and through history epidemics have eradicated whole regions, started vast migrations, and decided wars. This book looks at the conflict between rich and poor societies with regard to where outbreaks might occur and introduces possible strategies for containment.

Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity. Focuses on vital sociological issues raised by resurgent disease pandemics

This volume focuses on the contributions that social scientists can make to understanding emerging epidemics, their impact, the threats they pose, and their social and political contexts.