Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola

Between individual patient care and global biosecurity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11188317
AutoresPolly Pallister-Wilkins (0000-0002-4741-613X, University of Amsterdam, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas507-523
Fecha de publicación2016-03-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThird World Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01436597.2015.1116935
OpenAlexW2296179267
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas14

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