Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world

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Label

Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world

Title remainder

pandemics and politics in the contemporary world

Statement of responsibility

Simon Rushton

Creator

• Rushton, Simon, 1978-

Author

• Rushton, Simon, 1978-

Subject

• Global Health
• Global Health
• Medical policy
• Medical policy
• Medical policy
• National security
• National security
• National security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
• Communicable Disease Control
• Pandemics -- prevention & control
• Politics
• Politics
• Public health -- International cooperation
• Public health -- International cooperation
• Public health -- International cooperation
• World health
• World health
• World health
• Pandemics -- prevention & control
• Communicable Disease Control

Language

eng

Summary

"For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what resources and policies to put in place to protect populations from pandemics, however, involves difficult political choices. How can we get these decisions right? And what are we prepared to sacrifice to achieve better health security? In this book, Simon Rushton explores the politics of pandemics in the contemporary world. Looking back over three decades of public health, he traces national and international efforts to tackle infectious disease, focusing in-depth on three core areas in which securitization has been particularly successful: rapidly spreading pandemic diseases, HIV/AIDS and man-made pathogenic threats, such as biological weapons. Three central problems raised by common responses to disease as a security threat are then examined: the impact upon individuals and civil liberties; the tendency to treat the symptoms and not the underlying causes of disease outbreaks; and the limited range of diseases deemed worthy of global attention and action. Arguing against a tendency to treat global health security as a technical challenge, the book stresses the need for a vibrant, and even confrontational, political engagement around the implications of securitizing public health"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

362.1969/8

Index

index present

LC call number

RA566.27

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WA 110