Biosecurity Interventions

An edited volume with many participants in the VSS collaboration and many fellow travelers is scheduled to come out with Columbia University Press in spring 2008. The working title is “Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question.” The papers in the volume were originally written for a workshop at the SSRC in New York. The table of contents as it currently stands:

  • Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff, “Introduction”
  • Nick Bingham and Stephen Hinchliffe, “Mapping the Multiplicities of Biosecurity”
  • Carlo Caduff, “Anticipations of Biosecurity”
  • Lyle Fearnley, “Information Breakdown: Redesigning Syndromic Surveillance for Biosecurity”
  • Frédéric Keck, “From Mad Cow Disease to Bird Flu: Transformations of Food Safety in France”
  • Erin Koch, “Disease as a Security Threat: Critical Reflections on the Global TB Emergency”
  • Andrew Lakoff, “From Population to Vital System: Public Health and the Changing Object of National Security”
  • Peter Redfield, “Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit”
  • Dale A. Rose, “How Did the Smallpox Vaccination Program Come About? Tracing the Emergence of Recent Smallpox Vaccination Thinking”
  • Kathleen Vogel, “Biodefense: Considering the Socio-Technical Dimension”
  • Paul Rabinow, “Afterword”