{"product_id":"pathological-lives-steve-hinchliffe-9781118997604","title":"Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics","description":"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, \u003ci\u003ePathological Lives\u003c\/i\u003e investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully 'regulated' without making life more dangerous as a result. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month research project entitled 'Biosecurity borderlands'\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe book makes three main conceptual contributions, reconceptualising disease as situated matters, the spatial or topological analysis of situations and a reformulation of biopolitics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUniquely 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Hinchliffe, Nick Bingham, John Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1118997603\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781118997604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley-Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Steve Hinchliffe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465481572607,"sku":"9781118997604","price":41.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d75239d-8c17-40c1-a2e5-8f7ca934a0ee.jpg?v=1736346374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pathological-lives-steve-hinchliffe-9781118997604","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}