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Public Health & Biofears. JIGSAW #2. This week:. Public Health Concerns: Human Papilloma Virus Syphilis Typhoid AIDS Ebola Management Outcomes: Solidify identity distinctions Incite fear (positive, negative effects) Protect populace Ensure freedom, yet limit lifestyle choices.
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Public Health & Biofears JIGSAW #2
This week: • Public Health Concerns: • Human Papilloma Virus • Syphilis • Typhoid • AIDS • Ebola • Management Outcomes: • Solidify identity distinctions • Incite fear (positive, negative effects) • Protect populace • Ensure freedom, yet limit lifestyle choices
Reflection #7 • In “Biopolitics and the Molecularization of Life,” Braun contends that public health today largely concerns itself with “biosecurity.” • Define what he means by “biosecurity” and • Provide at least one example of how biosecurity is enacted.
“Biopolitics and the molecularization of life” • Bruce Braun, Professor of Geography, U of M Twin Cities
Biopolitics Geopolitics • Public Health & Globalization • “Unruly movement of animals” • Transportation • Global trade • “Collapse space and time” (18) • Bodies conceived of as: • Molecular…genetic • Unpredictable (15) • Porous: “Radically open to the world” (17)
Answer to Unpredictability: Biosecurity. • Characterized by PREEMPTION: • Bioinformation sequestered & controlled • Surveillance networks • Early warning systems • Data-mining operations • WHO rapid response teams • Global agency & information collaboration
Biosecurity, cont. • Concerned with: • Sanctity of borders (22) • Normal vs pathological • Modern vs primitive
Biosecurity, cont. • Justifies • Biological entities = biohazards (21) • Rationalization for eliminating “taints” or “weaknesses” in populations (10) • Continued state of emergency (23) • Making “our biological life our life’s work” (12)
Think like a feminist scientist: • How would you account for disproportionate rates of a certain disease among a (racial, national, economic, gendered, etc.) population? • What assumptions/stereotypes might you avoid? • What factors might you consider?
Think like a feminist scientist: • What kinds of coalitions would it be important for you, as a public health researcher, to build?
Think like a feminist scientist: • What kinds of obstacles might you face as you seek to enact feminist politics?