Pandemics and emerging infectious diseases : the sociological agenda

Notes on contributors vii 1 Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics? 1 Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman and Karen Staniland 2 Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics 8 Martin French and Eric Mykhalovskiy 3 West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic 21 Maya K. Gislason 4 Who's worried about turkeys? How 'organisational silos' impede zoonotic disease surveillance 33 Colin Jerolmack 5 How did international agencies perceive the avian infl uenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the 'One World, One Health' framework 46 Yu-Ju Chien 6 Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference 59 Muriel Figuie 7 The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease 72 Rosemary C.R. Taylor 8 The return of the city-state: urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic 85 Lily M. Hoffman 9 The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus in New York City 98 Sabrina McCormick and Kristoffer Whitney 10 Using model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics 110 Erika Mansnerus 11 Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public-private partnerships in collective risk preparation 122 Veronique Steyer and Claude Gilbert 12 'If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once': gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics 134 Rebecca Godderis and Kate Rossiter 13 Flu frames 139 Karen Staniland and Greg Smith 14 Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: the case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 2009 153 Gustavo S. Mesch, Kent P. Schwirian and Tanya Kolobov 15 Why the French did not choose to panic: a dynamic analysis of the public response to the infl uenza pandemic 160 William Sherlaw and Jocelyn Raude Index 172