Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1: Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2: Public health intelligence and the detection of potential pandemics -- Introduction -- The sociology of public health (SPH) -- Social determinants of population health -- Disease prevention, healthy conduct and biological citizenship -- Public health intelligence (PHI) -- Conceptualisation and actualisation of pandemics -- Semantic struggles in an enlarged space of pandemic potentiality -- Settling controversy - allies in the actualisation of pandemics -- PHI: sites for future research -- Active concepts -- Forms of knowledge -- Diverse informants -- Organisational initiatives -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3: West Nile virus: The production of a public health pandemic -- Foucauldian theories of power -- Methodology -- PHAC's production of the WNV -- Surveillance -- Normalisation -- Exclusion -- Regulation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4: Who's worried about turkeys? How 'organisational silos' impede zoonotic disease surveillance -- Introduction -- Methods -- Institutional interaction and organisational culture -- Priorities, jurisdictions and silos -- Forging systemic connections -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5: How did international agencies perceive the avian influenza problem? The adoption and manufacture of the 'One World, One Health' framework -- The emergence of 'One World One Health' -- Theoretical backgrounds and methods -- Competition between the fragmented frames: 2003-2008 -- Technical/biomedical intervention frame -- Societal intervention frame -- Ecological conservation frame -- The convergence on the OWOH policy framework: 2008 to the present -- Functional consensus despite diverse interpretations.

A double-edged policy framework -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6: Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence to interference -- Introduction -- Materials and method -- Global risks and cosmopolitisation -- Avian flu: a classic and a modern risk -- Asia, Vietnam and cosmopolitan modernities -- Relations of definitions, relations of domination: the framing of avian flu -- Phase 1: avian flu, a classic risk -- Phase 2: avian flu, a modern risk -- Global risk instrumentalisation: from local to international issues -- A transformative cooperation for Vietnam? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7: The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease -- The cases -- The problematic -- The European Union -- Protecting borders -- Explaining variations in screening across diseases -- Disease identities -- Tuberculosis: diseased immigrants and recalcitrant patients -- People with AIDS (PWA) -- Disease identities and the making of policy -- Europe and the collective imaginary -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8: The return of the city-state: Urban governance and the New York City H1N1 pandemic -- Introduction -- Methods and map -- The organisational and ideological context for pandemic planning -- NYC as a unit of health policy and planning -- The post-9/11 environment for pandemic planning: All-hazards and emergency preparedness -- Rescaling up or down? -- The event: H1N1 in NYC - spring and fall 2009 -- Fall 2009 -- All-hazards emergency preparedness and pandemic response -- Bureaucratic interface citywide -- Resources and capacity -- Models, projections, worst-case scenarios -- School closing policy -- Mandatory vaccination and civil rights -- The problem of initial response -- Implications for health governance -- Acknowledgements -- References.

9: The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus in New York City -- Introduction -- Methods -- Crisis interventions -- Initial reaction: New York City, 1999-2000 -- Response institutionalisation: New York State 2000-2001 -- Institutional rearrangement -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10: Using model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics -- Introduction -- Methods of analysis -- Modelling pandemics: How do models tell their stories? -- Accommodating uncertainties in modelled narratives of pandemics -- Towards narratives of governance -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11: Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public-private partnerships in collective risk preparation -- Introduction -- Companies: from 'risk-generator' to 'partner' in dealing with risks -- Pessimistic literature on the potential of a public-private partnership (PPP) -- Methods and data -- French preparation for the pandemic -- Recognition by public authorities of the need to involve companies -- The necessary 'partnership' discourse -- Ambiguous implementation -- A major difficulty: assigning responsibilities -- The partnership discourse: complications rather than help in time of crisis? -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12: 'If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once': gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 13: Flu frames -- Introduction -- A brief history of a contested term -- Framing the flu -- Flu frames -- Audiences and flu frames -- Conclusion: Frames, moral panics, and epidemic psychologies -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 14: Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: the case of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 2009 -- Introduction -- Theory, hypothesis and methods -- Findings -- Concluding remarks -- References.

15: Why the French did not choose to panic: a dynamic analysis of the public response to the influenza pandemic -- Introduction -- Sequence analysis of health behaviour during the influenza pandemic -- Effects of perceptions on health behaviour during the pandemic: state or change? -- The 1918 Spanish flu: an anchor for the future influenza pandemic? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.