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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Lakoff, Andrew (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Unprepared [Texte imprimé] : global health in a time of emergency / Andrew Lakoff
Publication : Oakland : University of California press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (231 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. 205-219
"This book tells the story of how the fragile and still-uncertain machinery of global
health security was cobbled together over a two-decade period, beginning in the early
1990s. It is neither a heroic account of visionary planning by enlightened health
authorities, nor a sinister story of the securitization of disease by an ever-expansive
governmental apparatus. Rather, it is a story of the assemblage of disparate elements--adapted
from fields such as civil defense, emergency management and international public health--by
well-meaning experts and officials, and of response failures that have typically led,
in turn, to reforms that seek to strengthen or refocus the apparatus. The analysis
centers on the ways that authorities--whether public health officials, national security
experts, life scientists, or other privileged observers--conceptualize and act on
an encroaching future of disease emergence. This uncertain future can be taken up
and made into an object of present intervention according to multiple rationalities:
as an object of probabilistic calculation, as a specter that must be avoided through
precautionary intervention, or as a potential catastrophe that cannot be evaded but
can only be prepared for. In the chapters that follow, we see how these various logics
come into tension or combine in response to actual and anticipated disease emergencies."--Provided
by publisher
Sujet(s) : Bioterrorisme -- Prévention
Gestion des situations d'urgence
Biopolitique
Indice(s) Dewey :
363.325 3 (23e éd.) = Bioterrorisme et terrorisme chimique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520295766. - ISBN 0520295765 (br.). - ISBN 9780520295759. - ISBN 0520295757
(rel.). - ISBN 9780520968417 (eBook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45673000c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45673000
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; A continuous state of readiness ; The generic biological threat
; Two regimes of global health ; Real time biopolitics ; A fragile assemblage ;
Diagnosing failure ; Epilogue.
