Dingwall, Robert
Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Sociological Agenda
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
- Detailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factors
- Contributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspective
- Bold, agenda-setting treatment of a high-profile topic
Keywords: health; resurgence; infectious disease; globalized; public; world; social; threat; explores; pandemics; issues; inevitable; unpredictable; sociological; volume; example; diseases; health authorities; perceptions; affect; coverage, Infectious Disease, Sociology of Globalization, Infectious Disease, Sociology of Globalization
- Editor
- Dingwall, Robert
- Hoffman, Lily M.
- Staniland, Karen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
- Page amount
- 184 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118553930
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118553718