Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola

Between individual patient care and global biosecurity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11188317
AutoresPolly Pallister-Wilkins (0000-0002-4741-613X, University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume37
Fascículo3
Páginas507-523
Data de publicação2016-03-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThird World Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01436597.2015.1116935
OpenAlexW2296179267
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências 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