Discourses of Disease, Discourses of Disadvantage: A Critical Analysis of National Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans  

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Garoon, Joshua P. ; Duggan, Patrick S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 67 no. 7 (Oct. 2008), page 1133-1142.
Topik: Pandemic Influenza; Preparedness; Disadvantaged Populations; Critical Discourse Analysis; Ethics; Health Policy

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.23 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Growing recognition of the threat of pandemic influenza to global health has led to increased emphasis on pandemic influenza preparedness planning. Previous analysis of national pandemic preparedness plans has revealed that those plans paid scant attention to the needs and interests of the disadvantaged. This paper investigates those findings via cirtical discourse analysis of the same plans as well as World Health Organization guidance documents. The analysis reveals that the texts operate within and as parts of an ordered unvierse of discouse. Among the six discourses which emerge from the analysis the scientific, political and legal dominate the social, cultural, and ethical. This order of discourse delineated a specific regime of truths within which the lives, needs, and interests of the disadvantaged are masked or neglected. Unless the plans recognize their discursive construction, implementation of the policies and practices they prescribe runs the risk of further disadvantaging those very populations most likely to require protection.

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