Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert

by Eric Mykhalovskiy and Lorna Weir

Book Overview

Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health.

This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease, historically the focus of international disease control, was displaced by "international public health emergencies," a concept that brought new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415810604
• ISBN13: 9780415810609
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"