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Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies—from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. In Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s Col... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (A Columbia / SSRC Book)
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 publi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology #28)
The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials app... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg • Joan Wallach Scott • Julie Livingston • Natalia Molina • Jun Li • Guobin Yang • Andrew Lakoff • Priscilla Wald • Warwick Anderson • Warren Breckman • Adam Tooze • Ananya Roy • Sophie Lewis • Neha Vora • Margaret O'Mara • Yarimar Bonilla • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • Margaret Morganroth Gullette • Marcia Chatelain • Jacob A.C. Remes • Joanne Randa Nucho • Xiaowei Wang • Miguel Centeno • Jean-Paul Gagnon • Keisha N. Blain • Sulfikar Amir • Mustafa Dikeç • David Schmidt • Gautam Bhan • David S. Barnes • Isabelle Guérin • Andy Horowitz • Simon Balto • Éric Charmes • Max Rousseau • Michelle Cera • Gilles Guiheux • Ye Guo • Renyou Hou • Manon Laurent • Anne-Valérie Ruinet • Govindan Venkatasubramanian • Mathieu Ferry • Marine Al Dahdah • Sherihan Radi • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder • Rachel Nolan • Evan Lieberman • Julia Foulkes • Soledad Álvarez Velasco • Sophie Gonick • Alfonso Fierro • Erick Corrêa • Gianpaolo Biaocchi • Jake Carlson • Quentin Ravelli • Rikki J. Dean • Afsoun Afsahi • Emily Beausoleil • Selen A. Ercan • Cordula Dittmer • Daniel F. Lorenz • Kathryn Cai • Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention
Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace pu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Disaster and the Politics of Intervention (A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk))
Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace pu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010