Good Reasons to Panic
May 6th, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Environment, Globalization, Health, Health Care, Risk Society
Following my own post on moral panics versus risk society, Damien Babet has an interesting post (and a whole bunch of links too) on why there are good reasons to be seriously concerned regarding the H1N1 flu:
To summarize (although you should read the whole thing), pandemics are more likely to occur in the context of a humanity that is more numerous, concentrated in high density areas, in intense contact with animal population and infectious agents, along with environmental pressure. With all these conditions, really, what did we think was going to happen?
Posted in Environment, Globalization, Health, Health Care, Risk Society | 1 Comment »
May 7th, 2009 at 7:50 am
WE AGREE and have posted on this theme. You might find The Curse of the Lucky Monkey Principle useful:
http://bentsocietyblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Disease%20and%20%20Lucky%20Monkeys