Driving Question: How has the development of science over time influenced the containment of disease around the world?
Cecchine, Gary, and Melinda Moore. “Background: Challenges of and Responses to Infectious Disease Threats.” Infectious Disease and National Security: Strategic Information Needs, 1st ed., RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; Arlington, VA; Pittsburgh, PA, 2006, pp. 5–14.
Cecchine and Moore’s book provides a response to infectious disease threats as a long-standing priority of health agencies in the United States and around the world. The link between infectious disease, national security, and economics is analyzed as a relatively new concept. I could not find any research on who the authors were so this make me wonder now credible this information could really be. This source will definitely not be on my biggest priorities list when looking through my economics lense. Explaining the challenges of infectious disease threats and science from this perspective provides a background from which to address my research and driving question. My economics lense will be getting a bit of information from this source to connect and bring together my project.
Hofmann, Bjørn. “The Technological Invention of Disease.” Medical Humanities, Institute of Medical Ethics, 1 June 2001
In Hofman’s academic journal, the author shows readers that in the field of medicine and science, changes in technology have provided immeasurable benefits to society. Catastrophic and epidemic diseases have been prevented and/or controlled by improvements in sanitation and hygiene and by introduction and widespread use of vaccines and antimicrobial and other drugs. The impact of technology on the practice of medicine is among the most salutary changes that has occurred during the twentieth century. Bjørn Hofmann is a Norwegian researcher in the philosophy of medicine. Some of his main areas of interest are the relationship between epistemology and ethics, and the concepts of health, disease and overdiagnosis. His journal is also very indispensable because it gives examples of how exactly technology has helped with disease control around the world. This journal will be included in the portion of my project when it comes to my technological lense.
Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial Threats. Ethical and Legal Considerations in Mitigating Pandemic Disease: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2007. 3, Strategies for Disease Containment.
In this article provided by the Institution of Medicine, the author talks about the containment and prevention of certain disease. Also how knowledge of these diseases and technology plays a huge role in containing them. The Institution of Medicine is going to be a very credible source since it is an organization established as a component of the US National Academy of Sciences that works outside the government to provide data-based information and recommendations for public health. This source is the most different out of all my sources provided because it comes directly from an institution that personally found this data and not someone that just wrote an article off the data they got from someone else. I will be using this information just all around shape my project and provide all kinds of evidence to make it stronger and credible.
McMichael, AJ et al. “Global environmental change and health: impacts, inequalities, and the health sector” BMJ (Clinical research ed.) vol. 336,7637 (2008): 191-4.
In McMichaels article, the author reviews how harmful and diseased environments lead to diseases forming amongst citizens and possibly creating an epidemic. Also, climate change and other tremendous environmental changes are not likely to root entirely new diseases although they may supply to the emergence of new strains of viruses and other microbes that can infect humans. One of the great epidemiologists to work across the millennia, Professor Anthony John McMichael AO FTSE MBBS PhD, who retired from the Australian National University in 2012. Compared to my other sources this author is just as plausible. I will also be relying on this source heavily since my author is very credible and an expert in this field. I will be specifically applying my knowledge from this source to provide information through my environment approach of my project.
Weatherall, David. “Science and Technology for Disease Control: Past, Present, and Future.” Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. 2nd Edition., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1 Jan. 1970
In Weatherall’s academic journal, readers get a look of how he aims to examine the role of science and technology has played a role in disease control since the beginning of science, how it’s affecting it now and how it can potentially influence it in the future. The author reveals some of these developments and the effect they have had on medical practice in both industrial and developing countries through major achievement in the biomedical sciences for improving the health of society. David Weatherall is a British physician and researcher in clinical medicine. Weatherall is one of the world's experts on the clinical and molecular basis of the thalassemias and the utilization of this data for the control and prevention diseases in the developing countries. This source is definitely one the most information packed and most credible I’ll be using in my project. Since this journal is filled with all types of information, I will be using it to answer from all my different viewpoints or lenses I’ve chosen. I will also be fitting all this useful information in all parts of my research to help back up my claim and answer my driving question.