Davis, Mark. “”Is it Going to be Real?” Narrative and Media on a Pandemic.” Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research [Online], 18.1 (2017): n. pag. Web. 2 Feb. 2020 DOI: 10.17169/fqs-18.1.2768 Open access Abstract: In this article, I examine the narrative-media nexus as it relates to pandemics. Communications feature in global public health …
Jlateh Vincent Jappah and Danielle Taana Smith, Global governmentality: Biosecurity in the era of infectious diseases, Global Public Health. 2015;10(10):1139-56. Epub 2015 May 18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2015.1038843 Abstract This paper uses Foucault’s concept of governmentality to examine relationships between globalisation, the threat of infectious diseases and biosecurity. It draws attention to forms of calculated practices which Foucault …
Engels, K.S. Biopower, Normalization, and HPV: A Foucauldian Analysis of the HPV Vaccine Controversy (2015) Journal of Medical Humanities, 14 p. Article in Press. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-015-9361-5 Abstract This article utilizes the Foucauldian concepts of biopower and normalization to give an analysis of the debate surrounding the controversial administration of the HPV vaccine to adolescents. My …
Pepper, S. Subscribing to Governmental Rationality: HBO and the AIDS Epidemic (2014) Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies, Published online Feb 2014 Abstract Between 1987 and 2013, HBO produced or distributed over twenty HIV/AIDS programs. These films trace a cultural shift from an early focus on AIDS as a public health issue to be dealt with …
ESRC Seminar Series on Contemporary Biopolitical Security Fourth workshop: Problematising Danger Co-sponsored by the Biopolitics of Security Network, the Emerging Securities Research Unit @ Keele University and the Centre for International Relations, War Studies Department, King’s College London 21-22 February 2011 The River Room, King’s College London, Strand Campus Keynote speaker: Professor Marieke de Goede …
Danish artist Rasmus Sverre is currently working on the illustrations for a new book on Foucault and epidemics by Danish philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen
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