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Steve Hinchliffe - Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics - 9781118997598 - V9781118997598
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Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics

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Description for Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics Hardback. Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases have become one of the key challenges for contemporary global society. The central claim of Pathological Lives is that any solution offered to these kinds of emerging and often communicable diseases requires a broad-based geographical scrutiny. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: RGC; RNP; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 ... Read more
  • 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
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
RGS-IBG Book Series
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118997598
SKU
V9781118997598
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Steve Hinchliffe
Steve Hinchliffe is Professor of Human Geography at Exeter University, UK. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and author and editor of numerous books and articles on issues ranging from risk and food, to biosecurity, urban ecologies and nature conservation. He sits on the UK’s Food Standards Agency Social Science Research Committee and has advised DEFRA on ... Read more

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