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Andreas_RebmannThe main point was to discuss the controversy between these two, very different, safety and education zones for Nuclear disasters
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Andreas_RebmannMiriam Ticktin is an associate professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and Co-Director of Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility. her main areas of interest include immigration and politics that interact with universal humanitarinism. Her work is related to some of the topics we cover, such as at-risk groups and mobility post-disaster, as well as current potential new health stresses on the world due to politics and immigration.
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Andreas_RebmannThis study looks at the connection between structural violence (social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harms way) to the spread of HIV/AIDs in America and abroad. Instead of looking at HIV/AIDs as a disease that is spread due to an individual’s lifestyle and decisions, it approaches the disease as something that aggregates disproportionately in impoverished communities. This same methodology is applied to the prevalence of pediatric aids in Rwanda, looking at which mothers have access to the appropriate healthcare equipment and why.
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Andreas_RebmannThe article is a conglomeration of findings during two research workshops in 2014 and 2015. There are also many outside articles referenced on the subject. Finally experiences from those in the field are used to understand the difficulties.
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Andreas_RebmannAndrew Lakoff is a cultural anthropologist at University of Southern California. He studies social theory and medical anthropology.
Stephen Collier is a doctor of philosophy, derpartment of Anthropology, at the University of California Berkeley. He also studies social theory and social policy.
Both have studied policies on medical aid and global health.
Some othe rpublications:
"Vaccine Politics and the Management of Public Reason"
"Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary"
"Real-Time Biopolitics: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Public Health"
"Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency"
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michael.lee"These initiatives build on a growing perception among diverse actors — life scientists and public health officials, policymakers and security analysts — that new biological threats challenge existing ways of understanding and managing collective health and security. From the vantage point of such actors, the global scale of these threats crosses and confounds the boundaries of existing regulatory jurisdictions. Moreover, their pathogenicity and mutability pushes the limits of current technical capacities to detect and treat disease."
"However, the ideal of dual use faces many difficulties, in part because public health professionals often do not agree with security experts about which problems deserve attention, and how interventions should be implemented. Such disagreements point to broader tensions provoked by the current intersection of public health and national security. Public health officials and national security experts promoting preparedness strategies have very different ways of evaluating threats and responses. As a result, programs that depend on coordination between these groups may often founder."
"The report defines emerging disease as one among a number of new threats to security that 'do not stem from the actions of clearly defined individual states but from diffuse issues that transcend sovereign borders and bear directly on the effects of increasing globalization that challenge extant frameworks for thinking about national and international security.' Proposed responses to this new 'global threat' have come from various kinds of organizations, with diverse agendas."
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Andreas_RebmannThey did not include the viewpoint of fire fighters in this film, who were also important in the response to this disaster.
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michael.leeOSHA is a part of the United States Department of Labor and is overseen by the Secretary of Labor. The chief administrator of OSHA is the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, who is supported by a Chief of Staff and several Senior Advisors. The Assistant Secretary oversees two Deputy Assistant Secretaries who supervises various directors and administrators. The full organization chart can be found on the OSHA website.
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Andreas_RebmannThis book and the associated chapters has been extensively cited and discussed. Originally written in French and translated, it is clearly an incredibly influential work.