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Pandemics
Researchers at University of New South Wales release new data on pandemics
June 2nd, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, "This paper analyses contemporary Australian newspaper coverage of the threat of pandemic influenza in humans, specifically in the light of recent transformations in biomedical and public health understandings of infectious disease as continuously emerging. Our analysis suggests that the spectre of pandemic influenza is characterised, in newspaper accounts, as invoking a specific form of nation building." "The Australian nation is depicted as successfully securing itself in the face of a threat from Asia (and in the absence of an effective international health body). What is...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-02)
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