Pandemics, epidemics and food borne diseases are a major global
challenge. Focusing on the food and farming sector, and mobilising
social theory as well as empirical enquiry, Pathological Lives
investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological
lives can be successfully 'regulated' without making life more dangerous
as a result.
- Uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the
course of a 40-month research project entitled 'Biosecurity
borderlands'
- Focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and
subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic
proportions
- Demonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis,
drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well
as national and international examples
- The book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising
disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of
situations and a reformulation of biopolitics
- Uniquely brings together conceptual development with empirically and
politically informed work on infectious and zoonotic disease, to
produce a timely and important contribution to both social science and
to policy debate