Everts Jonathan
Department of Geography, University of Bayreuth, Germany;
Antipode. 2013 Sep;45(4):809-825. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01021.x. Epub 2012 Jul 19.
This paper discusses the ways in which 2009 novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) was announced and resonated with current pandemic anxieties. In particular, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are used as a lens through which recent pandemic anxieties can be analysed and understood. This entails a closer look at the securitisation of public health and the challenges and struggles this may have caused within public health agencies. In that light, CDC' formal entanglement with global health security and its announcement of the H1N1 pandemic are interpreted, followed by an ethnographically informed focus on various people who were engaged in the H1N1 emergency response and their practices and practical struggles in the face of pandemic anxiety.
本文探讨了2009年新型甲型H1N1流感病毒(猪源)被宣布的方式以及它如何引发了当下的大流行焦虑。特别是,美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)被作为一个视角,通过它可以分析和理解近期的大流行焦虑。这需要更深入地审视公共卫生的安全化以及这可能给公共卫生机构带来的挑战和斗争。鉴于此,对CDC与全球卫生安全的正式关联及其对H1N1大流行的宣布进行了解读,随后基于人种志研究,聚焦于参与H1N1应急响应的各类人群以及他们在面对大流行焦虑时的实践和实际斗争。