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