Biosecurity Interventions

Global Health and Security in Question

By: Andrew Lakoff (Editor), Stephen Collier (Editor)

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Hardcover | 21 October 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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 public health and medicine but also from such fields as emergency management, national security, and global humanitarianism.

This volume provides a map of this complex and rapidly transforming terrain. The editors focus on how experts, public officials, and health practitioners work to define what it means to "secure health" through concrete practices such as global humanitarian logistics, pandemic preparedness measures, vaccination campaigns, and attempts to regulate potentially dangerous new biotechnologies.

As the contributions show, despite impressive activity in these areas, the field of "biosecurity interventions" remains unstable. Many basic questions are only beginning to be addressed: Who decides what counts as a biosecurity problem? Who is responsible for taking action, and how is the efficacy of a given intervention to be evaluated? It is crucial to address such questions today, when responses to new problems of health and security are still taking shape. In this context, this volume offers a form of critical and reflexive knowledge that examines how technical efforts to increase biosecurity relate to the political and ethical challenges of living with risk.

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a thought-provoking volume that provides an important look into how far-reaching biosecurity is, while illustrating the ambiguities that still remain. Somatosphere Provides insight into the complexity behind what it means to 'secure health.' -- Sonja Kittelsen Journal of Peace Research

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government International Relations Medicine Medicine in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine Health Systems & Services History Political Control & Freedoms Clinical & Internal Medicine Family & Health

The Problem of Securing Health	p. 7
From Population to Vital System: National Security and the Changing Object of Public Health	p. 33
Redesigning Syndromic Surveillance for Biosecurity	p. 61
How Did the Smallpox Vaccination Program Come About?: Tracing the Emergence of Recent Smallpox Vaccination Thinking	p. 89
Disease as Security Threat: Critical Reflections on the Global TB Emergency	p. 121
Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit	p. 147
Mapping the Multiplicities of Biosecurity	p. 173
From Mad Cow Disease to Bird Flu: Transformations of Food Safety in France	p. 195
Biodefense: Considering the Sociotechnical Dimension	p. 227
Anticipations of Biosecurity	p. 257
Afterword: Episodes or Incidents Seeking Significance	p. 279
Acknowledgments	p. 285
List of Contributors	p. 287
Index	p. 291
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