Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola
Between individual patient care and global biosecurity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11188317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Polly Pallister-Wilkins (0000-0002-4741-613X, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 507-523 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436597.2015.1116935 |
| OpenAlex | W2296179267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article focuses on the use of Personal Protective Equipment in humanitarianism. It takes the recent Ebola outbreak as a case through which to explore the role of objects in saving individual lives and protecting populations. The argument underlines the importance of PPE in mediating between individual patient care and biosecurity. In addition it questions the preoccupation with technical fixes; challenges dominant perceptions about the subject of humanitarianism being the victims of disaster; traces the production of a particular politics of life; and explores the individualisation of risk and concomitant processes of labour discipline in the everyday lives of humanitarian workers
Argument (complex analysis · Biopower · Biosecurity · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Corporate governance · Disease · Economics · Environmental ethics · Management · Personal protective equipment · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Subject (documents · Global Security and Public Health · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |