Infectious Urgency
Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies
$208.25
- Hardcover
270 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2026
Summary
How urgency-driven public health communication perpetuates inequities
Global public health systems necessarily approach emergent threats with great urgency. As Julie Gerdes argues in Infectious Urgency: Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies, that urgency itself functions as a rhetorical logic. And this logic shapes prevention tactics, outbreak communication, and response efforts, often in ways that reify power and exacerbate global …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781643365893 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1643365894 |
| Author: | Julie Gerdes |
| Publisher: | University of South Carolina Press |
| Imprint: | University of South Carolina Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 270 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Movement Rhetoric, Rhetoric's Movements |
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Julie Gerdes
Julie Gerdes is assistant professor of technical and professional writing and rhetoric at Virginia Tech, where she is a co–principal investigator of the NSF COMPASS Center, a predictive intelligence program for pandemic prediction. Previously she served as a technical advisor for USAID.
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