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100	1	0	_aLeach, Melissa _eauthor _91971
700	1	0	_aMacGregor, Hayley _eauthor _91972
700	1	0	_aRipoll, Santiago _eauthor _91973
700	1	0	_aScoones, Ian _eauthor _91974
700	1	0	_aWilkinson, Annie _eauthor _91975
245	0	0	_aRethinking Disease Preparedness: Incertitude and the Politics of Knowledge
260			_c2022.
500			_a/pmc/articles/PMC7614024/
500			_a/pubmed/36618759
520			_aThis paper argues for a rethinking of disease preparedness that puts incertitude and the politics of knowledge at the centre. Through examining the experiences of Ebola, Nipah, cholera and COVID-19 across multiple settings, the limitations of current approaches are highlighted. Conventional approaches assume a controllable, predictable future, which is responded to by a range of standard interventions. Such emergency preparedness planning approaches assume risk - where future outcomes can be predicted - and fail to address uncertainty, ambiguity and ignorance - where outcomes or their probabilities are unknown. Through examining the experiences of outbreak planning and response across the four cases, the paper argues for an approach that highlights the politics of knowledge, the constructions of time and space, the requirements for institutions and administrations and the challenges of ethics and justice. Embracing incertitude in disease preparedness responses therefore means making contextual social, political and cultural dimensions central.
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540			_ahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) International license.
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690			_aArticle
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786	0		_nCrit Public Health
856	4	1	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2021.1885628 _zConnect to this object online.
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