Pandemics, Publics, and Politics Staging Responses to Public Health Crises /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bjørkdahl, Kristian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Carlsen, Benedicte (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Medical anthropology.; Medicine.; Medical Sociology.; Medical Anthropology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Pandemics are potentially very destructive phenomena, and for that reason, they both fascinate and frighten us. And because they are shot through with uncertainty, they often become sites of contestation and conflict. This book presents research on the 2009 pandemic and other public health crises in...