Pathological Lives: Disease, Space and Biopolitics
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 1697650
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1002/9781118997635
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- ISBN
- 978-1-118-99759-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Pathological Lives investigates current approaches to biosecurity and ask how pathological lives can be successfully ‘regulated’ without making life more dangerous as a result. The book uses empirical and social theoretical resources developed in the course of a 40-month extensive research project entitled ‘Biosecurity borderlands’.
It focuses on the food and farming sector, where the generation and subsequent transmission of disease has the ability to reach pandemic proportions. It demonstrates the importance of a geographical and spatial analysis, drawing together social, material and biological approaches, as well as national and international examples.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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