Epidemic Orientalism

Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease

Alexandre I. R. White (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

322 Seiten

2023
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3412-1 (ISBN)

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For many residents of Western nations, COVID-19 was the first time they experienced the effects of an uncontrolled epidemic. This is in part due to a series of little-known regulations that have aimed to protect the global north from epidemic threats for the last two centuries, starting with International Sanitary Conferences in 1851 and culminating in the present with the International Health Regulations, which organize epidemic responses through the World Health Organization. Unlike other equity-focused global health initiatives, their mission—to establish "the maximum protections from infectious disease with the minimum effect on trade and traffic"—has remained the same since their founding. Using this as his starting point, Alexandre White reveals the Western capitalist interests, racism and xenophobia, and political power plays underpinning the regulatory efforts that came out of the project to manage the international spread of infectious disease. He examines how these regulations are formatted; how their framers conceive of epidemic spread; and the types of bodies and spaces it is suggested that these regulations map onto. Proposing a modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism, White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern epidemic disease control.

Alexandre I. R. White is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is Associate Director for JHU's Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine.

Introduction

1. Epidemic Orientalism

2. The International Sanitary Conventions at a Colonial Scale

3. Epidemics under the WHO

4. The Battle to Police Disease

5. Epidemics, Power, and the Global Management of Disease Risk

6. Pricing Pandemics

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	7 tables, 3 figures, 7 halftones
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-3412-4 / 1503634124
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3412-1 / 9781503634121
Zustand	Neuware