Introduction
1. A Continuous State of Readiness
2. The Generic Biological Threat
3. Two Regimes of Global Health
4. Real Time Biopolitics
5. A Fragile Assemblage
6. Diagnosing Failure
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Andrew Lakoff is Associate Professor of Sociology and Communication at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry and coeditor of Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question.
"Andrew Lakoff offers an engaging analysis of the evolving state of
emergency response to global health crises... Unprepared is an
impressive account of outcomes based on their counterfactuals."
*Social Forces*
"Significantly, the book focuses not only on the changing mode of
governing—the emergence of preparedness—but also on the diverse
governmental technologies applied within this approach. If the
problem has shifted from knowledge-dependent possibilities
(accidents, risks), manageable by means of risk technology, to
potential threats, what types of intervention technologies become
possible? . . . The book seeks neither to provide a manifesto for
the importance of preparedness nor to criticize its failures.
Instead, drawing on the perspective of historical ontology, it
tracks the emergence of an unstable consolidation of global health
security, posing the question: "How did the norm of preparedness
come to structure expert thought and action concerning the future
of infectious disease?”
*Bulletin of the History of Medicine*
" As a basic, yet detailed overview, this book would do well
to serve practitioners engaged in public policy issues,
particularly regarding public health, and scholars who engage in
similar research. Further, the author helps generate possible
conversations regarding our current national issues in public
health, such as the opioid crisis or tobacco use. Arguably one of
this book’s primary contributions is the way it promotes
contemplation and discussion on global health catastrophes whether
the reader is intimately involved in the field or even using
historical analysis in their own research to apply methods for
addressing future challenges."
*Anthropology & Education Quarterly*
"As studies in historical ontology, Lakoff’s works have taught us
how to see today’s world of epidemic anticipation and control
beyond that cornerstone of hygienic modernity: prevention.
Unprepared fulfills the promise of his invitation to the
dizzying depths of global health security by laying bare how
enactments of readiness are intricately and at the same time
anxiously linked to an unstable constitution of threat."
*Somatosphere*
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