Organizer: Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine
Venue/Room: Building J1, Lecture Hall G
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Contact person: Wiebke Lisner
Email address: lisner.wiebke@mh-hannover.de
Presentation of the book "Planning for Pandemics: Prevention and Preparedness as Practices for the Future in the 20th and 21st Centuries."
The book examines pandemic planning from an interdisciplinary perspective. It explores prevention and preparedness measures in Germany, the United States, and at the level of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the 20th and 21st centuries. For example, how was yellow fever prevention organized in South Africa from the 1930s to the 1950s?
Unlike traditional accounts of individual infectious diseases and responses to them, this anthology begins before pandemics have manifested: with prevention and preparation for the event of a pandemic. The focus is thus on pandemic futures.
Open to anyone interested.