Pathological lives : disease, space and biopolitics / Steve Hinchliffe [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinchliffe, Steve, 1967- author.

Hinchliffe, Steve, author.

Series:

RGS-IBG book series.

RGS-IBG Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microbial ecology--Health aspects.

Microbial ecology.

Bioethics.

Communicable diseases--Epidemiology.

Communicable diseases.

Human-animal relationships--Political aspects.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations, graphs, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

Summary:

Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully 'regulated' without making life more dangerous as a result. * Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled 'Biosecurity borderlands' * Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions * Demonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples * The book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopolitics * Uniquely brings together conceptual development with empirically and politically informed work on infectious and zoonotic disease, to produce a timely and important contribution to both social science and to policy debate

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Keywords

Reading Pathological Lives

Part I: Framing Pathological Lives

Chapter One: Pathological Lives - Disease, Space and Biopolitics

Introduction: The Emergency of Emergent Infectious Diseases

The Four Moves of Pathological Lives

References

Chapter Two: Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease

Disease Diagrams

The Disease Multiple: Germs and the Return of the Outside

Biosecurity and the Diagramming of Disease

Conclusions

Chapter Three: Reconfiguring Disease Situations

Disease Situations

Microbial Life and Contagion as Difference and Repetition

A Topological Disease Situation

Part II: Disease Situations

Chapter Four: 'Just‐in‐Time' Disease

Factory‐Farmed Chicken and Food‐borne Disease

Relational Economy of Disease

Powers of Life

Chapter Five: The De‐Pasteurisation of England

Birth of the Sty

Pigs in Practice - Fieldwork and Translations

Immunity, Attention and More‐than‐Human Responses

Chapter Six: Attending to Meat

Introduction

Mapping the Current Landscape of Food Safety

A Failure of Coordination?

Inspection as Tending the Tensions of Food Safety

Being Stretched

Chapter Seven: A Surfeit of Disease

The Media Background to Disease Publics

Publicising Disease: From Public 'Understanding' to 'Engagement'

Understanding and Engaging Disease Publics

Understanding the Surfeit

Conclusions: Making a Disease Public

Chapter Eight: Knowing Birds and Viruses - from Biopolitics to Cosmopolitics

Sensing Life

A Livelier Biopolitics and a Noisier Sentience.

A Perceptual Ecology of Knowing Birds

Surveying Life

Knowing Viruses

The Significance of Observation

Chapter Nine: Conclusions - Living Pathological Lives

Time‐Space and Intra‐Actions

A livelier Politics of Life

A new Kind of Emergency?

Index

End User License Agreement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118997604

1118997603

9781118997628

111899762X

9781118997635

1118997638

OCLC:

967587986