Pandemics, Publics, and Politics

Provides accessibly written and succinct perspectives on a still under-explored aspect of public health preparedness.

Valuable resource for researchers in medical humanities, medical anthropology, sociology of health and medicine, as well as researchers within public health studies.

Autorentext
Kristian Bjørkdahl is senior researcher at Uni Research Rokkan Centre, in Bergen, Norway.
Benedicte Carlsen is research leader and research professor at the Uni Research Rokkan Centre, in Bergen, Norway.

Inhalt
CHAPTER 1 Introduction.- CHAPTER 2 Global Health Governance and Pandemics: Uncertainty and Institutional Decision-Making.- CHAPTER 3 Uncertainty and Immunity in Public Communications on Pandemics.- CHAPTER 4 Enacting Pandemics: How Health Authorities Use the Press and Vice Versa.- CHAPTER 5 Disease Knows No Borders: Pandemics and the Politics of Global Health Security.- CHAPTER 6 When Authority Goes Viral: Digital Communication and Health Expertise on pandemi.no.