Pandemics, Science and Policy H1N1 and the World Health Organisation [Paperback]

Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO's account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain risks can affect policy and action on the global level.1. Introduction 2. Narrating the Nature of H1N1 3. Risk and Scientific Uncertainty 4. Categorising H1N1 5. Vaccines, Institutions and Pandemic Management 6. Contestation and the Council of Europe 7. Globalisation and the Global Public Health Paradigm 8. Conclusion

Tightly argued from sociological theory, the book, part of the Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy series, will appeal to sociologists of global health and global health policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. (T. P. Gariepy, Choice, Vol. 53 (6), February, 2016)

Sudeepa Abeysinghe is a Lecturer in Global Health Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.