Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Health Place. 2012 Jul;18(4):701-9. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.11.004.
This paper draws together work on the event to problematise the generative implications of anticipatory governance in the management of emerging infectious disease. Through concerns for preparedness, the need to anticipate outbreaks of disease has taken on a new urgency. With the identification of the H1N1 virus circulating amongst human populations in 2009, public health measures and security practices at regional, national and international levels were rapidly put into play. However, as the ensuing event demonstrated, the social, political and economic disruptions of emerging infectious diseases can be matched by those of anticipatory actions. I argue that the event-making potential of surveillance practices and the pre-determined arrangements of influenza preparedness planning, when triggered by the H1N1 virus, caused an event acceleration through the hyper-sensitised global health security architecture. In the UK, this led to a bureaucratic reflex, a security response event that overtook the present actualities of the disease. This raises questions about the production of forms of insecurity by the security apparatus itself.
本文通过对事件的研究，探讨了在新兴传染病管理中，预期治理的生成意义。由于对防范的关注，对疾病爆发的预测变得更加紧迫。随着 2009 年 H1N1 病毒在人群中传播，地区、国家和国际层面的公共卫生措施和安全措施迅速实施。然而，正如随后的事件所表明的那样，新兴传染病的社会、政治和经济破坏可以与预期行动的破坏相匹配。我认为，当 H1N1 病毒触发时，监测实践的事件制造潜力和流感防范计划的预先确定安排，通过高度敏感的全球卫生安全架构导致了事件的加速。在英国，这导致了一种官僚主义的反应，一种安全应对事件，超过了疾病的当前实际情况。这引发了关于安全机构本身制造不安全形式的问题。
